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//! The **coalgebraic / `Poly` view**, made into checked code rather than narration.
//!
//! A certified refutation is a *discrete dynamical system* — a coalgebra `S → p(S)` for a polynomial
//! functor `p` (positions = states, directions = the certified moves available there), exactly
//! Spivak's model of dynamical systems in `Poly`. A Lyapunov measure is then a **coalgebra morphism
//! to the countdown coalgebra** `(ℕ, n ↦ n-1)` — the canonical well-founded object: it intertwines
//! the system's dynamics with the countdown's, i.e. every transition strictly decreases it.
//!
//! The load-bearing theorem (Taylor; Adámek–Milius–Moss on *well-founded coalgebras*): **a finite
//! system is well-founded (terminating — no infinite forward trajectory) iff it admits a morphism to
//! a well-founded object.** That equivalence *is* the synthesis–impossibility duality at the
//! categorical level: a collapsing measure is a countdown morphism, and its non-existence is the
//! presence of a cycle. We make both directions constructive and machine-checked here, and connect
//! it back: every Lyapunov trajectory this crate produces is a countdown morphism on its path system.
/// A finite transition system: a coalgebra `S → 𝒫(S)` for the finite-powerset polynomial functor.
/// `successors[s]` lists the states reachable from `s` in one step.
#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
pub struct TransitionSystem {
pub n_states: usize,
pub successors: Vec<Vec<usize>>,
}
impl TransitionSystem {
/// A linear "path" system `0 → 1 → … → n-1` — the shape of a (deterministic) proof trajectory.
pub fn path(n: usize) -> TransitionSystem {
TransitionSystem {
n_states: n,
successors: (0..n).map(|s| if s + 1 < n { vec![s + 1] } else { vec![] }).collect(),
}
}
}
/// Is `measure` a **coalgebra morphism to the countdown coalgebra**? Every transition `s → t` must
/// strictly decrease it (`measure[t] < measure[s]`) — the morphism square commuting with `n ↦ n-1`.
/// Because the countdown is well-founded, a `true` here *witnesses* that the system is well-founded.
pub fn is_countdown_morphism(system: &TransitionSystem, measure: &[u64]) -> bool {
if measure.len() != system.n_states {
return false;
}
system
.successors
.iter()
.enumerate()
.all(|(s, succ)| succ.iter().all(|&t| t < measure.len() && measure[t] < measure[s]))
}
/// Is the system **well-founded** (acyclic — no infinite forward trajectory)? Equivalent, for a
/// finite system, to "is a DAG". Computed by Kahn's algorithm: a full topological order exists iff
/// there is no cycle.
pub fn is_well_founded(system: &TransitionSystem) -> bool {
let n = system.n_states;
let mut indeg = vec![0usize; n];
for succ in &system.successors {
for &t in succ {
if t < n {
indeg[t] += 1;
}
}
}
let mut queue: Vec<usize> = (0..n).filter(|&s| indeg[s] == 0).collect();
let mut seen = 0;
let mut qi = 0;
while qi < queue.len() {
let s = queue[qi];
qi += 1;
seen += 1;
for &t in &system.successors[s] {
if t < n {
indeg[t] -= 1;
if indeg[t] == 0 {
queue.push(t);
}
}
}
}
seen == n // all states ordered ⇒ no cycle ⇒ well-founded
}
/// The **canonical countdown morphism** of a well-founded system: the longest forward path from each
/// state (sinks = 0). This is the *terminal* such morphism — the existence half of the theorem made
/// constructive. Returns `None` if the system is not well-founded (no morphism exists).
pub fn canonical_countdown_morphism(system: &TransitionSystem) -> Option<Vec<u64>> {
if !is_well_founded(system) {
return None;
}
let n = system.n_states;
let mut rank = vec![0u64; n];
let mut done = vec![false; n];
// Memoised longest-path via an explicit stack (the system is a DAG, so this terminates).
for start in 0..n {
if done[start] {
continue;
}
let mut stack = vec![start];
while let Some(&s) = stack.last() {
let pending: Option<usize> =
system.successors[s].iter().copied().find(|&t| t < n && !done[t]);
match pending {
Some(t) => stack.push(t),
None => {
let r = system.successors[s]
.iter()
.filter(|&&t| t < n)
.map(|&t| rank[t] + 1)
.max()
.unwrap_or(0);
rank[s] = r;
done[s] = true;
stack.pop();
}
}
}
}
Some(rank)
}
#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
use super::*;
#[test]
fn well_founded_iff_admits_a_countdown_morphism() {
// THE THEOREM, machine-checked over many random finite systems: the system is well-founded
// (acyclic) IFF it admits a coalgebra morphism to the countdown. Forward (acyclic ⇒ morphism):
// the canonical longest-path ranking IS one. Backward (cyclic ⇒ no morphism): a cycle would
// force `V(s) < V(s)` — so no candidate, however chosen, can be a morphism.
let mut state = 0x0CA1_0B5A_7777_1234u64;
let mut next = || {
state = state.wrapping_add(0x9E3779B97F4A7C15);
let mut z = state;
z = (z ^ (z >> 30)).wrapping_mul(0xBF58476D1CE4E5B9);
z = (z ^ (z >> 27)).wrapping_mul(0x94D049BB133111EB);
z ^ (z >> 31)
};
let mut acyclic_seen = 0;
let mut cyclic_seen = 0;
for _ in 0..5_000 {
let n = 2 + (next() as usize % 7);
let mut succ = vec![Vec::new(); n];
for s in 0..n {
let deg = next() as usize % 3;
for _ in 0..deg {
succ[s].push(next() as usize % n);
}
}
let system = TransitionSystem { n_states: n, successors: succ };
let wf = is_well_founded(&system);
match canonical_countdown_morphism(&system) {
Some(m) => {
assert!(wf, "a morphism was produced ⇒ must be well-founded");
assert!(is_countdown_morphism(&system, &m), "the canonical morphism must check");
acyclic_seen += 1;
}
None => {
assert!(!wf, "no morphism ⇒ must be cyclic");
// The impossibility, witnessed: NO measure is a morphism for a cyclic system.
for _ in 0..6 {
let cand: Vec<u64> = (0..n).map(|_| next() % (n as u64 + 1)).collect();
assert!(!is_countdown_morphism(&system, &cand), "a cycle admits no Lyapunov fn");
}
cyclic_seen += 1;
}
}
}
assert!(acyclic_seen > 0 && cyclic_seen > 0, "the equivalence must be exercised both ways");
}
#[test]
fn a_cycle_admits_no_lyapunov_function() {
// The impossibility side, explicit: a 3-cycle `0→1→2→0` is non-terminating, and NO potential
// is a countdown morphism for it — the categorical statement of "no measure ⇒ no termination".
let cycle = TransitionSystem { n_states: 3, successors: vec![vec![1], vec![2], vec![0]] };
assert!(!is_well_founded(&cycle));
assert!(canonical_countdown_morphism(&cycle).is_none());
// Exhaustively over all small potentials: none is a morphism.
for a in 0..4u64 {
for b in 0..4u64 {
for c in 0..4u64 {
assert!(!is_countdown_morphism(&cycle, &[a, b, c]), "no potential can descend around a cycle");
}
}
}
}
#[test]
fn the_kernel_termination_guard_is_this_well_founded_coalgebra_theorem() {
// FUSING THE TOWER TO THE KERNEL FIX (CRITIQUE #1). The structural-recursion guard just hardened
// in logicaffeine_kernel accepts a fixpoint IFF every recursive call decreases a structural
// measure — i.e. iff the recursion relation is WELL-FOUNDED. That is exactly this rung:
// well-founded ⟺ admits a countdown morphism (a Lyapunov ranking). The guard is not ad hoc; it
// enforces "the recursion admits a Lyapunov function," the coalgebra characterization of
// termination — the same theorem the ∞-groupoid tower is built on, now grounding a real soundness
// fix in the proof kernel.
//
// A structurally-decreasing fixpoint on Nat is the countdown chain n → n−1 → … → 0: well-founded,
// and the structural size IS the morphism the guard implicitly constructs.
let decreasing = TransitionSystem {
n_states: 6,
successors: (0..6).map(|i| if i > 0 { vec![i - 1] } else { vec![] }).collect(),
};
assert!(is_well_founded(&decreasing), "structural recursion on Nat is well-founded (the guard accepts it)");
let measure = canonical_countdown_morphism(&decreasing).expect("a well-founded recursion has a Lyapunov ranking");
assert!(is_countdown_morphism(&decreasing, &measure), "the structural size IS the countdown morphism");
// The non-decreasing self-call `f n → f n` — exactly what the hardened guard now rejects — is a
// self-loop: not well-founded, and it admits NO countdown morphism. No Lyapunov function exists,
// so the recursion cannot terminate. The guard's rejection and the coalgebra's are the same fact.
let self_call = TransitionSystem { n_states: 1, successors: vec![vec![0]] };
assert!(!is_well_founded(&self_call), "a non-decreasing self-call is a cycle (the guard rejects it)");
assert!(canonical_countdown_morphism(&self_call).is_none(), "no Lyapunov function for a non-terminating recursion");
}
#[test]
fn our_lyapunov_trajectories_are_countdown_morphisms() {
// The connection back to the framework. A Lyapunov measure allows plateaus (several certified
// moves at one potential level), so it is a *lax* morphism to `(ℕ, ≥)`. Its **level structure**
// — the distinct potential values, on the level system `level_0 → level_1 → …` — is the STRICT
// morphism to the countdown coalgebra, and that strict descent is what witnesses termination.
// We check it on the actual symmetry and parity trajectories.
let level_morphism = |traj: &[u64]| {
let mut levels = traj.to_vec();
levels.dedup(); // distinct potential levels (the trajectory is non-increasing)
let path = TransitionSystem::path(levels.len());
is_countdown_morphism(&path, &levels)
};
let (php, _) = crate::families::php(6);
if let Some((_, ranked)) = crate::lyapunov::solve_by_measure_synthesis(php.num_vars, &php.clauses) {
assert!(level_morphism(&ranked.ranks), "the symmetry measure's levels are a countdown morphism");
}
let (eqs, tcnf, _) = crate::families::tseitin_expander(10, 7);
let (traj, _) = crate::lyapunov::gaussian_lyapunov(&eqs, tcnf.num_vars);
assert!(level_morphism(&traj), "the parity measure's levels are a countdown morphism");
}
}