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Exact Odd-Palindrome Radii

Abstract

Every scale and every positive center has a complete reflection test.

Theorem 1.1 (The complete positive-center radius law).

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

Source. Repository-derived.

Commentary.

The center is the positive one-based index 2^r u, with odd u. The tested radius is strictly below the center, so every left index remains positive. For u=1 all available reflections agree. Otherwise the first disagreement is at q=2^r when the maximum adjacent valuation is even, and at 3q when it is odd. The word uses zero-based indexing, hence the subtraction of one from both positive endpoints. Natural subtraction is truncated, and mod is natural remainder.

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