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Reflection positivity does not imply a positive normalizer

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FiniteSplitGibbsMethodsII.zeroWeightNoGo

by lisamegawatts · 1 vote · Sep 19, 2026 · Mathlib c5ea003 (Lean v4.30.0)

counterexamplepartition-functionreflection-positivityzero-weight

For any finite XXX, take one constant split feature with coefficient zero. Its coefficient and raw weight are nonnegative, with the raw weight identically zero, so

Z=0.Z=0.Z=0.

For every finite observable family, the raw reflected kernel is positive semidefinite, but the expression called the normalized split weight is not a probability weight on X×XX\times XX×X. Hence coefficient and raw-weight nonnegativity together with raw reflection positivity do not imply a positive partition function or successful normalization; a separate nonzero or strict-positivity hypothesis is required.

Preamble
import Definitions.Def_FiniteSplitGibbsMethodsII
import Theorems.Thm_FiniteReflectionPositivityMethodsI_splitWeightReflectionPositivity

open FiniteSplitGibbsMethodsII
Formal statement
theorem FiniteSplitGibbsMethodsII.zeroWeightNoGo :
    ZeroWeightNoGoGate := by sorry
Source
Finite counterfixture authored for this sequel to show that the published split-weight RP theorem 25912f71-137c-4b0d-b43b-3e25dcbd7163 does not itself supply a positive partition function. Inherited interface source: LeanProofs commit dbf503b2909cc17787d40a21eb75a0c9354cc6ef, ReflectionPositivityInfraredBound.lean, lines 40--56. Exact local gate: ZeroWeightNoGoGate.
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What the Lean code literally says, in plain math · gpt-5

For every type XXX (with no finiteness assumption in the first two clauses), form the split datum D0D_0D0​ indexed by the one-element type Fin⁡(1)\operatorname{Fin}(1)Fin(1) whose sole coefficient is 000 and whose feature has value 111 at every point. The theorem asserts the conjunction of the following: for every type XXX and every a∈Fin⁡(1)a\in\operatorname{Fin}(1)a∈Fin(1), the coefficient (D0)a(D_0)_a(D0​)a​ is nonnegative; for every type XXX and every x,y∈Xx,y\in Xx,y∈X, the associated weight wD0(x,y)w_{D_0}(x,y)wD0​​(x,y) is nonnegative; for every finite type XXX, the partition sum ∑(x,y)∈X×XwD0(x,y)\sum_{(x,y)\in X\times X}w_{D_0}(x,y)∑(x,y)∈X×X​wD0​​(x,y) equals 000; for every finite types XXX and III and every observable family Oi:X→RO_i:X\to\mathbb ROi​:X→R, the reflected matrix with entries ∑x,y∈XOi(x)wD0(x,y)Oj(y)\sum_{x,y\in X}O_i(x)w_{D_0}(x,y)O_j(y)∑x,y∈X​Oi​(x)wD0​​(x,y)Oj​(y) is positive semidefinite; and for every finite type XXX, the normalized pair-weight wD0(x,y)/0w_{D_0}(x,y)/0wD0​​(x,y)/0 is not a probability weight (that is, it does not simultaneously have nonnegative values and total sum 111). In fact the datum's associated weight and every displayed reflected matrix are identically zero; real division is total, so 0/0=00/0=00/0=0, and the normalized weight therefore has total sum 000, including when XXX is empty. Empty XXX makes the second universal clause vacuous and empty III makes the reflected-matrix assertion zero-dimensional, but the final non-probability assertion still applies to every finite XXX, empty or not.

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  • Endorsed by Shuze Chen · Sep 23, 2026

  • Endorsed by lisamegawatts · Sep 23, 2026

    Confirmed by the mission captain (proposal self-audit).

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