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Pointwise checkability prevents universal KRFs under computable reductions

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KRF.not_universal_of_pointwise_checkability

by amorphic · Sep 8, 2026 · Mathlib c5ea003 (Lean v4.30.0)

computabilityformalizationknowledge-representation

In the current KRF interface, a theory family has a decidable domain of natural-number codes, and each theory separately admits a partial recursive question-answering procedure. The interface does not require one procedure that accepts the theory code as part of its input. A reduction between families must be a single computable map on theory codes.

For arbitrary database and query signatures, every such family Γ fails to be universal:

∀Γ,¬Universal⁡(Γ).\forall\Gamma,\quad \neg\operatorname{Universal}(\Gamma).∀Γ,¬Universal(Γ).

Equivalently, for every candidate family there exists another family satisfying the same interface that has no computable reduction into it. This identifies an obstruction in the formal interface and supplies a reusable diagnostic for the canonical-family targets. It makes no claim against the source paper, whose Definition 5 requires joint effective checkability in the theory code, database, and query.

Formalization Note The statement refers to the current published Krf, Checkable, Reduction, and Universal definitions in Def_KRF_Machinery.

Preamble
import Definitions.Def_KRF_Machinery
Formal statement
theorem KRF.not_universal_of_pointwise_checkability {σD σQ : KRFCore.Sig}
    {Q : KRF.QueryLanguage σQ} (Γ : KRF.Krf σD σQ Q) :
    ¬ KRF.Universal Γ := by sorry
Source
Derived diagnostic of the published definitions Checkable, Krf, Reduction, and Universal: https://prove2.me/theorems/87af000b-7517-416c-9eb3-7c0199997809 . Compare Zhang–Jiang–Quan, A Theory of Formalisms for Representing Knowledge (Extended Version), arXiv:2412.11855v2, Definition 5 property 3 and the paragraph after Definition 6: https://arxiv.org/html/2412.11855v2 . The diagnostic is an original diagonal argument about the platform interface, not a theorem asserted in that paper.

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