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Period Ten Aggregate

Abstract

The period-at-most-ten enumeration has maximin exactly the champion value.

This level already carried its representative list and its aggregate low-arm bound, under names that do not follow the period-eight convention. Both were found by looking before building, and neither is rebuilt here.

What was missing is the pair that was missing at every level past eight: each recorded low state’s membership in its own orbit, and the cumulative list with its optimality statement. The forty-two new classes are joined to the period-at-most-nine list, and the argument is the one the period-eight level already uses.

Theorem 1.1 (Period ten maximin is the champion value).

Proof. Machine-checked in Lean as D5/S0/Tower/TribonacciPeriodicTen/EnumerationTenAggregate.tribonacci_periodic_orbit_maximin_ten (✓ std3). ∎

Source. Repository-derived.

Commentary.

The greatest element is the period-two repeating orbit, inherited from the shorter levels. What this level contributes is that none of its new classes beats it.

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