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Arithmetic Meaning of the Base Transducer

Abstract

The f charges on accepted paths equal the signed-weight difference of the encoded rounded halves.

Theorem 1.1 (Path charge is the exact signed-weight difference).

Proof. Machine-checked in Lean as D5/S1/Words/Palindromes/PeriodDoubling/BaseArithmetic.base_path_signed_weight_difference (✓ std3). ∎

Source. Repository-derived.

Commentary.

The third and fourth edge coordinates encode successive binary digits, least significant first, above the endpoint’s bit zero. Folding a + 2 x reconstructs the shifted integer. Source components 2 and 3 supply the fixed bit-zero parities, so adding them reconstructs the two rounded halves. The carry identities and the forced even remainder after a nonzero signed digit give the signed-weight change at each edge; path induction telescopes it. cast denotes the natural-to-integer embedding. This theorem identifies f weights and does not assert that all legal palindrome cuts have already been represented by accepted paths.

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