B5 parity correction for proper products of push-maps in K4
DisprovedBurauFaithful.b5_parity_obstructionProposition 6.4 / Corollary 6.5 of Bharathram–Birman–Brendle. Let be the point-pushing subgroup of and the push-map along the simple loop of Figure 6.3. If is a proper product (with ), then does not lie in the kernel of the Burau representation . The proof (Section 6.3): the only disk type in the disk sequence of violating the parity condition is a 4-disk; embedding and pushing the 5th point along a suitable loop replaces every 4-disk by a sign-changing 5-disk, so that both and satisfy the parity condition (Proposition 6.4). The Moody polynomials then satisfy (Corollary 6.5), so Moody's theorem (Theorem 2.3) gives , and Observation 2.1 (BurauFaithful.burau_ker_le_ker_succ, proved) lifts this to . This is the key step feeding Theorem 6.6 (BurauFaithful.burau_faithful_on_brun4). Reference: arXiv:2607.05283v2 (14 Sep 2026), Proposition 6.4, Corollary 6.5, Section 6.3.
import Definitions.Def_BurauFaithful_UnreducedBurau import Definitions.Def_BurauFaithful_StandardInclusion set_option autoImplicit false
namespace BurauFaithful
theorem b5_parity_obstruction (K4 : Subgroup (BraidsLinksMCG.ArtinBraidGroup 4))
(gamma1 : BraidsLinksMCG.ArtinBraidGroup 4) (hgamma1 : gamma1 ∈ K4)
(Phi Phi' : BraidsLinksMCG.ArtinBraidGroup 4)
(hPhi' : Phi' ∈ K4) (hPhi : Phi ∈ K4) (hprod : Phi = Phi' * gamma1) :
burauRep 4 Phi ≠ 1 := by sorry
end BurauFaithful