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Capstone: exact optimality of threshold deferral on a factor base.

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Probability.AdaptiveQS.factorBase_threshold_exactly_minimal

by raver1975 · Sep 10, 2026 · Mathlib c5ea003 (Lean v4.30.0)

aether-catalogprobability

Capstone: exact optimality of threshold deferral on a factor base. For an admissible factor base and an attainable relation quota Q, there is a threshold θ on the exact rate dial such that the retained primes

still collect the quota, are fewest possible: no quota-feasible set of primes is smaller, and have throughput at least that of sieving the entire factor base.

There is no tie-breaking freedom left: the threshold policy is exactly optimal, not merely optimal up to ties.

theorem Probability.AdaptiveQS.factorBase_threshold_exactly_minimal{N : ℤ} {FB : Finset ℕ} {Q : ℝ}
    (hFB : AdmissibleFB N FB) (hQ : 0 < Q)
    (hfeas : ∃ K ⊆ FB, Q ≤ ∑ p ∈ K, periodRate N p) :
    ∃ θ : ℝ,
      Q ≤ ∑ p ∈ keepSet FB (periodRate N) θ, periodRate N p ∧
      (∀ K ⊆ FB, Q ≤ ∑ p ∈ K, periodRate N p →
        (keepSet FB (periodRate N) θ).card ≤ K.card) ∧
      throughput FB (periodRate N)
        ≤ throughput (keepSet FB (periodRate N) θ) (periodRate N) := by sorry

Formalization Note Transplanted verbatim from the Aether Catalog source Probability/AdaptiveQSTieSlack.lean; the statement is byte-identical to the source declaration, elaborated with autoImplicit disabled in the platform environment.

Preamble
-- Thm stub generated from Probability/AdaptiveQSTieSlack.lean
import Mathlib
import Definitions.Def_Probability_AdaptiveQSAllocation
import Definitions.Def_Probability_AdaptiveQSPrefixOptimality
import Definitions.Def_Probability_AdaptiveQSResidueRate
import Definitions.Def_Probability_AdaptiveQSSkipFlip
import Definitions.Def_Probability_AdaptiveQSTieSlack
/-
Copyright (c) 2026 Harmonic. All rights reserved.
Released under Apache 2.0 license.

# Tie-multiplicity slack of threshold deferral, and its arithmetic vanishing

`AdaptiveQSPrefixOptimality.lean` collapsed the deployment policy space: the minimum-work
quota-feasible schedule can always be taken *separated*, and a separated schedule sits
inside the dial threshold set `keepSet s r θ` at `θ = ` its own minimal rate.  That left
exactly one gap, recorded as the open direction "Tie-Multiplicity Slack of Threshold
Deferral": the threshold set retains *every* target whose rate equals `θ`, so it can be
strictly larger than the minimal schedule.

This file closes that gap.

* `tieClass` — the targets sitting exactly on the threshold.
* `keepSet_sdiff_eq_tieClass_sdiff` — the excess of the threshold set over a separated
  schedule is *exactly* the tie class outside it (an equality of sets, not a bound).
* `keepSet_card_eq_add_tie_slack` — hence the cardinality identity
  `|keepSet| = |T| + |tieClass \ T|`: the extra work done by the threshold policy is the
  tie multiplicity, nothing more.
* `keepSet_eq_of_injOn` — if the rate dial is injective on the targets there are no ties,
  and the threshold policy reproduces the minimal schedule *on the nose*.
* `periodRate_injOn_admissible` — the arithmetic input: on a factor base of admissible odd
  primes the exact rate `2/p` is injective, because `p ↦ 2/p` is.
* `factorBase_threshold_exactly_minimal` — the capstone: on such a factor base, whenever a
  relation quota is attainable there is a threshold whose retained set meets the quota, has
  the *minimum possible* cardinality among all quota-feasible schedules, and has throughput
  at least that of sieving the whole factor base.
* Lab note `labnote_tie_slack_is_one`: a three-target instance with a genuine tie, where the
  threshold policy does one unit of work more than the optimum — showing the slack term is
  not vacuous and that injectivity is doing real work.
-/

open Probability.AdaptiveQS

open Finset

variable {ι : Type*} [DecidableEq ι]

/-! ## The tie class of a threshold -/





/-! ## The arithmetic case: rates `2/p` are pairwise distinct -/
Formal statement
theorem Probability.AdaptiveQS.factorBase_threshold_exactly_minimal{N : ℤ} {FB : Finset ℕ} {Q : ℝ}
    (hFB : AdmissibleFB N FB) (hQ : 0 < Q)
    (hfeas : ∃ K ⊆ FB, Q ≤ ∑ p ∈ K, periodRate N p) :
    ∃ θ : ℝ,
      Q ≤ ∑ p ∈ keepSet FB (periodRate N) θ, periodRate N p ∧
      (∀ K ⊆ FB, Q ≤ ∑ p ∈ K, periodRate N p →
        (keepSet FB (periodRate N) θ).card ≤ K.card) ∧
      throughput FB (periodRate N)
        ≤ throughput (keepSet FB (periodRate N) θ) (periodRate N) := by sorry
Source
https://github.com/paulklemstine/Lean/blob/53c2925a02/Catalog/Probability/AdaptiveQSTieSlack.lean#L123

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