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diaz-modulus-lean and prove2me-logs: the four exponentials theorem in transcendence degree one is proved
The 1973 construction whose four children
began to close in
diaz-modulus-lean is finished, and
with it the four exponentials theorem in transcendence degree one. The norm child
went first: FourExp.norm_to_polynomial_alg is proved
(a38d9db) by linear
algebra rather than the paper’s conjugates — the value is presented as
Π ∈ ℤ[X][Y] reduced modulo the monic Q, P = det M is the determinant of
multiplication by Π in the basis 1, Y, …, Y^(d−1), non-vanishing comes from a
kernel vector that would contradict the minimality of Q, and smallness from the
adjugate identity M·adj M = (det M)I. That made the core,
FourExp.construction_core_1973, a Proved node by cascade.
Three small leaves then closed the construction — rank-one parametrization, the
growth of the majorants x²√log x and x²/√log x, and the counting inequality
(80N⁴/√log N unknowns against 98N⁴/√log N equations) — each accepted on its
first submission, and the cascade proved FourExp.auxiliary_construction,
FourExp.small_polynomials_of_counterexample,
DiazModulus.four_exponentials_trdeg_one and the period-aligned half of the Diaz
branch that reduces to it (4118fcc):
if x₁, x₂ and y₁, y₂ are ℚ-linearly independent pairs whose four products have
algebraic exponentials, the field they generate has transcendence degree at least
two — every step, from Siegel’s lemma to the final contradiction, checked by Lean,
and the mirror now holds 154 of 154 entries.
The journal in prove2me-logs records the
same two steps with the nodes and submissions
(51e8586,
8a676e5).