Contribution notes

One stand-alone note per contribution of the project, each with a PDF, written for a reader who wants the result and its proof or certificate without the project's history. The HTML versions here are rendered from the same Markdown as the PDFs. Where a later note supersedes part of an earlier one, the later note says so; the earlier notes are kept as they were issued.

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Theorem H for frozen pyrochlore ice: proofs on the cells with a coprime pair of extents and on the cells with two chains in every pair of planes, a reduction to Theorem U alone on every cell, and the cubic cells of side one to eight
Theorem H proved by hand on every cell with a coprime pair of extents and on the cells with two chains in every pair of planes; reduced to Theorem U alone on every cell (30 September; $K_u$ no longer a step); by certificates on the cubic cells of side one to eight and on four cells that are not cubic (1 October); the signed moments as currents along the chains; where the method stops at three chains; what is known about Theorem U
2026-10-0134 claimsPDF
A sign-gauge obstruction to negative association in pyrochlore ice
no sign gauge makes the bond correlations negatively associated: the three-bond certificate
2026-09-06not yetPDF
Flux sectors of pyrochlore ice: log-concave counts, an octahedral winding support, and a certified failure of real-rootedness
flux-sector counts are log-concave, the support is the even lattice in an octahedron, the marginals are not real-rooted at high degree
2026-09-06not yetPDF
Frozen zero-flux states of pyrochlore ice are periodic at \(L = 2\) and \(L = 3\)
every frozen zero-flux state of cubic L = 2 and L = 3 is periodic; L = 4 incomplete
2026-09-06not yetPDF
How the work was done: the method of a language-model research programme on pyrochlore ice, and what it produced beyond its results
how the work was done: pre-registration and stage gates, the status vocabulary, the two-method gate, the certification ladder, the division of labour, the record; what the method caught and missed; generalisable findings
2026-09-06not yetPDF
The dynamical exponent of the single-hexagon-flip chain on pyrochlore spin ice
the exponent, z = 2.004 ± 0.060 over thirteen sizes to 221,184 spins, the 1/L² correction, the fixed-size test
2026-09-06not yetPDF
A pseudoscalar slow mode in pyrochlore ice dynamics: the emergent magnetic helicity at a thin cell
the slow even mode at the thin cell is the emergent magnetic helicity; absent as a slow mode in cubic geometry
2026-09-06not yetPDF
The giant-component conjecture for the hexagon-flip graph of pyrochlore ice
the giant-component conjecture with exact censuses and 27,000 certified flip paths
2026-09-06not yetPDF
Two frozen-state theorems for pyrochlore spin ice under hexagon flips
frozen states exist at every size: Theorem 1 (the smallest cell is frozen) and Theorem 2 (the translation-frozen family, C(2c,c)² and the 16^L bound)
2026-09-06not yetPDF
Frozen pyrochlore ice and the \(\mathbb{Z}_2\) curl: a reduction of the periodicity conjecture, with proofs in one dimension and two and certificates in three
the periodicity conjecture reduced to a parity statement: Lemmas A and L, Theorem 2D and the profile lemma proved; Theorems H and P certified; slab sums
2026-09-06not yetPDF