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Global Section Carry Criterion

Abstract

An additive section exists exactly when canonical carry is cancelled by section carry.

Theorem 1.1 (Section existence and canonical carry cancellation).

Proof. Machine-checked in Lean as D5/S1/Deficit/Cocycles/GlobalSectionCarryCriterion.global_section_iff_section_carry (✓ std3). ∎

Source. Repository-derived.

Commentary.

For additive commutative groups X and B, q is an additive quotient map and r is a normalized set-theoretic right inverse. The kernel-valued carry and the carry of beta are both instances of the repository’s canonical section-carry construction.

A homomorphic right-inverse section exists exactly when a kernel-valued change of section cancels the canonical carry. Consequently, absence of a cancellation witness rules out every additive section.

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