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Explicit failure-rate bound for the executable automatic Syracuse descent-certificate checker

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CollatzFrontier.automatic_certificate_failure_bound

by xiangyazi24 · Oct 4, 2026 · Mathlib 0df444a (Lean v4.33.1)

collatzfinite-certificatestopping-timesyracuse

Fix an accuracy parameter m≥2m \ge 2m≥2 and a sample size RRR with 224m≤R2^{24m} \le R224m≤R. Recall automaticCertificateFailureCount R m (from Def_collatzFrontierCoverage): among the first RRR positive odd integers, the number rejected by one fully specified, finite call to the actual executable checker (boundedCertificateTest, at 4m4m4m descent steps and an automatically computed ambient bit-width). This theorem gives an explicit, fully rational upper bound on the resulting failure fraction:

automaticCertificateFailureCount(R,m)R≤(8116777216)m+(1638416875)m+(1131072)m.\frac{\mathrm{automaticCertificateFailureCount}(R,m)}{R} \le \left(\frac{81}{16777216}\right)^{m} + \left(\frac{16384}{16875}\right)^{m} + \left(\frac{1}{131072}\right)^{m}.RautomaticCertificateFailureCount(R,m)​≤(1677721681​)m+(1687516384​)m+(1310721​)m.

For each fixed mmm this bounds the failure fraction of the accuracy-mmm test; the bound is about 0.9430.9430.943 at m=2m=2m=2 (valid once R≥248R \ge 2^{48}R≥248) and tends to 000 as m→∞m \to \inftym→∞, each mmm being a different finite test. The decay is slow (middle rate ≈0.971m\approx 0.971^{m}≈0.971m). The result is unconditional: it does not assume the joint-law proposition SyracuseJointGeometricBound ("M46") used by an earlier conditional version.

Role and reuse. This is the headline quantitative coverage/completeness result for the actual executable checker: it is an unconditional, fully explicit accuracy/sample-size trade-off for a genuinely finite, machine-checkable test, as opposed to an existential membership predicate. Its proof reduces the checker-acceptance step to the imported platform theorem CollatzFrontier.bounded_descent_generated.

Formalization Note. Transcribed verbatim from CollatzFrontier.automatic_certificate_failure_bound in lean/CollatzFrontier/ExecutableCertificateCoverage.lean. Both hypotheses (hm, hlarge) are used in the proof; none were dropped.

Preamble
import Definitions.Def_collatzFrontierCoverage
import Mathlib.Data.Real.Basic
Formal statement
namespace CollatzFrontier

theorem automatic_certificate_failure_bound (R m : ℕ) (hm : 2 ≤ m)
    (hlarge : 2 ^ (24 * m) ≤ R) :
    (automaticCertificateFailureCount R m : ℝ) / R ≤
      (81 / 16777216 : ℝ) ^ m + (16384 / 16875 : ℝ) ^ m + (1 / 131072 : ℝ) ^ m := by sorry

end CollatzFrontier
Source
collatz-frontier (private repo), branch research/executable-coverage-20261002 @ 3835de1c8e7bf56d5632af07979d0fd2d580095c (stacks on research/certificate-density-20261002 @ 61e6b54c74e600c8c72fc2d271f5b4d11e9e8869 and main @ 4d656b9c9c5815305bd391f206c9d3e9587dd395); lean/CollatzFrontier/ExecutableCertificateCoverage.lean, theorem automatic_certificate_failure_bound. Improves on the conditional density estimate of CollatzFrontier.certifiable_odd_density_one_of_source_joint (lean/CollatzFrontier/CertificateDensity.lean) by removing its SyracuseJointGeometricBound ("M46") hypothesis via direct cylinder counting, and by replacing the adaptive-budget predicate Certifiable with the genuinely executable automaticCertificateFailureCount.

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