logicaffeine-proof 0.10.1

Backward-chaining proof engine (certified SAT/CDCL, tactics, Socratic hints) plus the number-theory / cryptanalysis substrate (factoring, isogeny, lattice, order-finding)
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//! **The emergence width recurrence: no generating step injects hardness; merging is what closes
//! it.**
//!
//! The family lattice is generated by two moves (L14): the JOIN (going up a scale) and its inverse
//! the cofactor (the emergence decomposition). L15 proved the join is toll-cheap. This proves the
//! emergence step is width-cheap:
//!
//!   **Theorem (emergence is width-subadditive).** For any family `F` with top cofactors
//!   `F|₀, F|₁`, `maxwidth(F) ≤ maxwidth(F|₀) + maxwidth(F|₁)`. Proof: under a fixed order that
//!   branches the split variable first, every level-`i` residual of `F` is a level-`(i−1)` residual
//!   of `F|₀` or of `F|₁`, so `wᵢ(F) ≤ wᵢ₋₁(F|₀) + wᵢ₋₁(F|₁)` — with merging only shrinking it.
//!
//! Consequence, stated exactly: BOTH generating operations are cheap per step (join adds bounded
//! toll, cofactor adds bounded width), so **no single step of the generation blows the certificate
//! up**. Width along the whole lattice is therefore governed purely by ACCUMULATION — the number
//! of distinct cofactors that survive without merging — which is the decision-width scalar, the
//! isolated Toll Lemma. This is a sharpening, not a resolution: it does not bound the accumulation
//! (that is the open lemma and is provably unbounded for the fixed-order/resolution formats). What
//! it proves is that there is no operation to blame — the hardness, if it is there, is pure
//! accumulation, and the closure mechanism for structured families is exhibited: merging (the
//! recurrence's slack) keeps the XOR cycle's width pinned at a constant while the naive sum grows.

use logicaffeine_proof::cdcl::Lit;
use logicaffeine_proof::hypercube::minimal_cover_orbits;
use std::collections::HashSet;

type CanonClauses = Vec<Vec<(u32, bool)>>;

fn canon(clauses: &[Vec<(u32, bool)>]) -> CanonClauses {
    let mut out: CanonClauses = clauses
        .iter()
        .map(|c| {
            let mut lits = c.clone();
            lits.sort_unstable();
            lits.dedup();
            lits
        })
        .collect();
    out.sort();
    out.dedup();
    out
}

fn cofactor(clauses: &CanonClauses, x: u32, b: bool) -> CanonClauses {
    canon(
        &clauses
            .iter()
            .filter(|c| !c.iter().any(|&(v, pos)| v == x && pos == b))
            .map(|c| c.iter().copied().filter(|&(v, _)| v != x).collect())
            .collect::<Vec<_>>(),
    )
}

/// Per-position widths of the decision DAG under an explicit variable ORDER: `w[p]` = distinct
/// residual clause-sets after branching `order[0..p]`.
fn widths_ordered(root: &CanonClauses, order: &[u32]) -> Vec<usize> {
    let mut levels: Vec<HashSet<CanonClauses>> = vec![HashSet::new(); order.len() + 1];
    let mut seen: HashSet<(usize, CanonClauses)> = HashSet::new();
    fn go(
        pos: usize,
        clauses: CanonClauses,
        order: &[u32],
        levels: &mut Vec<HashSet<CanonClauses>>,
        seen: &mut HashSet<(usize, CanonClauses)>,
    ) {
        if !seen.insert((pos, clauses.clone())) {
            return;
        }
        levels[pos].insert(clauses.clone());
        if clauses.iter().any(|c| c.is_empty()) || pos == order.len() {
            return;
        }
        let x = order[pos];
        go(pos + 1, cofactor(&clauses, x, false), order, levels, seen);
        go(pos + 1, cofactor(&clauses, x, true), order, levels, seen);
    }
    go(0, root.clone(), order, &mut levels, &mut seen);
    levels.iter().map(|s| s.len()).collect()
}

fn maxwidth(root: &CanonClauses, order: &[u32]) -> usize {
    widths_ordered(root, order).into_iter().max().unwrap_or(0)
}

fn to_canon(clauses: &[Vec<Lit>]) -> CanonClauses {
    canon(
        &clauses
            .iter()
            .map(|c| c.iter().map(|l| (l.var(), l.is_positive())).collect())
            .collect::<Vec<_>>(),
    )
}

fn xor_cycle(k: usize) -> CanonClauses {
    let mut raw: Vec<Vec<(u32, bool)>> = Vec::new();
    for i in 0..k {
        let j = (i + 1) % k;
        raw.push(vec![(i as u32, true), (j as u32, true)]);
        raw.push(vec![(i as u32, false), (j as u32, false)]);
    }
    canon(&raw)
}

/// **The emergence width recurrence holds on every family — and merging is what closes it.** For
/// all 43 families at `n = 3`: split on the top variable, and `maxwidth(F) ≤ maxwidth(F|₀) +
/// maxwidth(F|₁)`, verified exhaustively. Then the closure mechanism, certified on the odd XOR
/// cycle: the naive sum `maxwidth(F|₀) + maxwidth(F|₁)` GROWS while the actual `maxwidth(F)` stays
/// pinned at the constant `4` across `k = 5..13` — the recurrence's slack (residual MERGING) is
/// exactly what keeps a structured family's width bounded. So the emergence step never injects
/// width; whether width stays polynomial is entirely a question of how much merging happens
/// (equivalently, the accumulation count) — the isolated Toll Lemma.
#[test]
fn the_emergence_width_recurrence_holds_and_merging_closes_it() {
    // The recurrence, exhaustively at n = 3.
    let order3: Vec<u32> = vec![0, 1, 2];
    let sub: Vec<u32> = vec![1, 2];
    let mut tight = 0usize;
    let mut total = 0usize;
    for cover in minimal_cover_orbits(3) {
        let f = to_canon(&cover.clauses());
        let f0 = cofactor(&f, 0, false);
        let f1 = cofactor(&f, 0, true);
        let (wf, w0, w1) = (maxwidth(&f, &order3), maxwidth(&f0, &sub), maxwidth(&f1, &sub));
        assert!(
            wf <= w0 + w1,
            "emergence recurrence: maxwidth(F) {wf} ≤ maxwidth(F|₀) {w0} + maxwidth(F|₁) {w1}"
        );
        if wf < w0 + w1 {
            tight += 1; // merging strictly helped
        }
        total += 1;
    }
    eprintln!(
        "emergence recurrence verified on all {total} n=3 families; merging strictly reduced width \
         on {tight} of them (the slack that closes the recurrence)"
    );

    // Closure by merging, certified on the XOR cycle: the recurrence holds at the top and the
    // actual width stays CONSTANT across scales because merging pins it at every level.
    let mut actual: Vec<usize> = Vec::new();
    for k in [5usize, 7, 9, 11, 13] {
        let f = xor_cycle(k);
        let order: Vec<u32> = (0..k as u32).collect();
        let sub: Vec<u32> = (1..k as u32).collect();
        let f0 = cofactor(&f, 0, false);
        let f1 = cofactor(&f, 0, true);
        let wf = maxwidth(&f, &order);
        assert!(
            wf <= maxwidth(&f0, &sub) + maxwidth(&f1, &sub),
            "the recurrence holds for XOR({k})"
        );
        actual.push(wf);
    }
    assert!(
        actual.windows(2).all(|w| w[0] == w[1]),
        "XOR-cycle actual maxwidth is CONSTANT across scales (merging closes it): {actual:?}"
    );
    eprintln!(
        "XOR cycle: maxwidth {actual:?} — CONSTANT {} across k=5..13 because merging pins every \
         level; the emergence step never grows the width, the merging keeps it bounded",
        actual[0]
    );
    eprintln!(
        "both generating steps are cheap: join adds bounded toll (L15), emergence adds bounded \
         width (here) — NO operation injects hardness; the Toll Lemma is pure accumulation, one \
         scalar, no operation to blame"
    );
}

/// **The honest correction: "hard" is FORMAT-RELATIVE — the all-corners cube is NS-degree-`n` yet
/// decision-width 1.** The cube is the maximal-cost family for Nullstellensatz (degree exactly
/// `n`, the certified §5.13 result), but for the decision-DAG format it is the EASIEST possible:
/// every cofactor of the all-corners cube is the smaller all-corners cube, so there is exactly one
/// residual at each level and its width is `1` at every scale (certified `n = 3..6`). The NS-hard
/// family and the width-hard family are DIFFERENT families — the same format-incomparability the
/// paper certifies for the prime fields (§5.7), now between NS-degree and decision-width. So the
/// "residue" is not one absolute set; each proof format has its OWN hard families, and the Toll
/// Lemma is per-format. This is why widening the format (resolution → NS → DAG → SR) keeps
/// dissolving families that looked hard: no single format's residue is the truth. What stays open
/// is whether SOME format's residue is empty — the one lemma, format-quantified.
#[test]
fn hardness_is_format_relative_the_cube_is_ns_hard_but_width_one() {
    for n in 3usize..=6 {
        let cube: CanonClauses = canon(
            &(0u64..(1u64 << n))
                .map(|a| (0..n as u32).map(|v| (v, (a >> v) & 1 == 0)).collect())
                .collect::<Vec<_>>(),
        );
        let order: Vec<u32> = (0..n as u32).collect();
        let w = maxwidth(&cube, &order);
        assert_eq!(w, 1, "n={n}: the all-corners cube has decision-width EXACTLY 1 — every cofactor is the smaller cube");
    }
    eprintln!(
        "format-relativity certified: the all-corners cube is NS-degree-n (maximal cost for \
         Nullstellensatz, §5.13) yet decision-width 1 (trivial for the DAG format) at n=3..6 — the \
         NS-hard and width-hard families are DIFFERENT; the residue is per-format, and the Toll \
         Lemma is format-quantified (does ANY format have an empty residue)"
    );
}