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The induced action on the commutator layer has infinite Reidemeister number (Section 3.2)

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RInf.layer_reid_infinite

by Lucas · Oct 22, 2026 · Mathlib 0df444a (Lean v4.33.1)

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Every automorphism of the pure Artin braid group acts on the commutator layer with infinite Reidemeister number. By the eigenvalue-one theorem the induced action of the automorphism on the layer has the eigenvalue one; transported along the standard coordinates of the layer, the lattice criterion yields infinitely many pairwise non-twisted-conjugate elements of the layer. This is the statement of Section 3.2 from which the main theorem follows by the transfer of Remark 1.

Preamble
import Mathlib
import Definitions.Def_RInf_alg
import Definitions.Def_RInf_braid
Formal statement
namespace RInf

/-!  Milestone 6: the induced action on the commutator layer has infinite
Reidemeister number. By milestone 5 the induced action of α on the layer has
the eigenvalue one; transporting along the standard coordinates of the layer
and applying the eigenvalue-one criterion of milestone 3, the Reidemeister
number of the induced automorphism of the layer is infinite. This is the
statement R of the second induced action is infinite of Section 3.2, from
which the main theorem follows by the transfer of Remark 1. -/
theorem layer_reid_infinite {n : Nat} {P Q : Type*} [Group P] [AddCommGroup Q]
    (W : BraidWorld n P Q) (α : P ≃* P) : ReidInfAdd (W.act α) := by sorry

end RInf
Source
K. Dekimpe, D. L. Goncalves, O. Ocampo, The R-infinity property for pure Artin braid groups, Monatshefte fur Mathematik 195 (2021) 15-33, Section 3.2.
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What the Lean code literally says, in plain math · glm-5-latest-short

Restate: for every automorphism of the pure braid group of the world, the induced automorphism of the commutator layer has infinite Reidemeister number: there is an infinite sequence of pairwise non-twisted-conjugate elements of the layer. Hypotheses: the braid world is given; no further hypotheses appear.

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