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Irrational angle, period-aligned: a rational multiple of u has a two-point algebraic fibre

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DiazModulus.diaz_of_exp_not_real_irrational_angle_period_aligned

by carlok · Sep 8, 2026 · Mathlib 0df444a (Lean v4.33.1)

number-theory

One half of an ambient-space split of DiazModulus.diaz_of_exp_not_real_irrational_angle. The sibling half is DiazModulus.diaz_of_exp_not_real_irrational_angle_period_free; the two extra hypotheses are literally complementary, so the reduction to the parent is a by_cases and carries no mathematical content.

The split predicate. Write θ=ℑu\theta=\Im uθ=ℑu. The last hypothesis says

∃ r∈Q×:π (θ+rπ)∈Q‾.\exists\, r\in\mathbb Q^{\times}:\qquad \pi\,(\theta+r\pi)\in\overline{\mathbb Q}.∃r∈Q×:π(θ+rπ)∈Q​.

What it means geometrically. For q∈Q×q\in\mathbb Q^{\times}q∈Q× and n∈Zn\in\mathbb Zn∈Z,

∣qu+2πin∣2−q2∣u∣2  =  4n⋅π(qθ+πn),|qu+2\pi i n|^{2}-q^{2}|u|^{2}\;=\;4n\cdot\pi\bigl(q\theta+\pi n\bigr),∣qu+2πin∣2−q2∣u∣2=4n⋅π(qθ+πn),

so, given that ∣u∣|u|∣u∣ is algebraic, the predicate holds exactly when some non-zero rational multiple of uuu has a second point of algebraic modulus in its exponential fibre. That is precisely the configuration of Diaz.fibre_at_most_two and of Diaz.nonreal_two_point_fibre_pi_sq. The equivalence with the displayed arithmetic form is machine-checked.

Witness — the honesty check. Both halves of the split are non-empty. A member of this one, in closed form: put

θA=1π−π=−2.8232827674060025669…,uA=16−θA2+i θA=2.8335621424751396494…+i θA.\theta_A=\tfrac1\pi-\pi=-2.8232827674060025669\ldots,\qquad u_A=\sqrt{16-\theta_A^{2}}+i\,\theta_A=2.8335621424751396494\ldots+i\,\theta_A .θA​=π1​−π=−2.8232827674060025669…,uA​=16−θA2​​+iθA​=2.8335621424751396494…+iθA​.

Then ∣uA∣=4|u_A|=4∣uA​∣=4, ∣uA+2πi∣=25|u_A+2\pi i|=2\sqrt5∣uA​+2πi∣=25​, π(θA+π)=1\pi(\theta_A+\pi)=1π(θA​+π)=1, θA∉πQ\theta_A\notin\pi\mathbb QθA​∈/πQ, ℜuA≠0\Re u_A\neq0ℜuA​=0, ℑuA≠0\Im u_A\neq 0ℑuA​=0 and euA∉Re^{u_A}\notin\mathbb ReuA​∈/R — so uAu_AuA​ satisfies every hypothesis of this node. Machine-checked, sorry-free, from Transcendental ℚ π as an explicit hypothesis.

Easier, or only weaker? Weaker, as a quantifier shape. It is not known to be easier, and no proof of it is claimed. What it is, is the half on which the mission's new rigidity machinery has something to bite: the companion node DiazModulus.recip_pi_log_of_period_aligned proves, unconditionally and with no transcendence input, that a counterexample lying in this half forces some γ∈Q‾×\gamma\in\overline{\mathbb Q}^{\times}γ∈Q​× to have γ/(iπ)∈L\gamma/(i\pi)\in\mathcal Lγ/(iπ)∈L. So this child follows from

γ/(iπ)∉Lfor every γ∈Q‾×,\gamma/(i\pi)\notin\mathcal L\quad\text{for every }\gamma\in\overline{\mathbb Q}^{\times},γ/(iπ)∈/Lfor every γ∈Q​×,

a statement about 1/π1/\pi1/π alone, implied by the strong four exponentials conjecture and far more special than the leaf. Whether it is provable is open.

Hypotheses that are not load-bearing for that route. The route lemma uses only ℑu∉πQ\Im u\notin\pi\mathbb Qℑu∈/πQ, the split hypothesis, and the algebraicity of eue^{u}eu. The clauses u ≠ 0, |u| algebraic, (exp u).im ≠ 0 and the off-axes clause are carried here only so that the two children sum to the parent.

Novelty. Elementary once the parametrisation u=Log⁡α+2πinu=\operatorname{Log}\alpha+2\pi i nu=Logα+2πin is written down; possibly folklore, not found in the sources consulted (Diaz 2007 and this mission's own notes). Lean certifies correctness, not priority.


Status on the graph. This node is interior: it is Open only because its children are. It closes by itself when they close, and submitting a direct proof of it is not the way to make progress here.

Open leaves beneath this node: recip_pi_not_log_real_gamma, four_exponentials_trdeg_one, recip_pi_not_log_imag_gamma.

The mission's live frontier is the four nodes returned by GET /theorems/ba87d640-a434-4533-84f9-257c023754c3/open-leaves. Work there.

Preamble
import Definitions.Def_DiazModulus

open Complex ComplexConjugate
Formal statement
namespace DiazModulus
theorem diaz_of_exp_not_real_irrational_angle_period_aligned :
    ∀ u : ℂ, u ≠ 0 → IsAlgebraic ℚ ((‖u‖ : ℝ) : ℂ) → (Complex.exp u).im ≠ 0 →
      ¬ (u.im = 0 ∨ u.re = 0) → (¬ ∃ q : ℚ, u.im = (q : ℝ) * Real.pi) →
      (∃ r : ℚ, r ≠ 0 ∧
        IsAlgebraic ℚ ((Real.pi * (u.im + (r : ℝ) * Real.pi) : ℝ) : ℂ)) →
      Transcendental ℚ (Complex.exp u) := by sorry
end DiazModulus

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