Identity padding for twisted products
Abstract
Identity padding for twisted products.
Theorem 1.1 (twisted input succ).
Lean statement: D5/S3/FiniteGroups/NikolovSegal/TwistedProductPadding.twisted_input_succ
Proof. Machine-checked in Lean as D5/S3/FiniteGroups/NikolovSegal/TwistedProductPadding.twisted_input_succ (✓ std3). ∎
Source. Repository-derived.
Commentary.
Append the genuine witnesses xi=eta=one to extend twisted PRODUCT coverage by one factor for arbitrary additional automorphisms.
Theorem 1.2 (twisted input mono).
Lean statement: D5/S3/FiniteGroups/NikolovSegal/TwistedProductPadding.twisted_input_mono
Proof. Machine-checked in Lean as D5/S3/FiniteGroups/NikolovSegal/TwistedProductPadding.twisted_input_mono (✓ std3). ∎
Source. Repository-derived.
Commentary.
Iterated identity padding extends twisted PRODUCT coverage from d to every e at least d, preserving the ordered automorphism tuple.
Nikolov and Segal, On finitely generated profinite groups, I: Strong completeness and uniform bounds, Annals of Mathematics 165 (2007), 171-238, DOI 10.4007/annals.2007.165.171, Section 8, Lemma 8.3 and Proposition 8.4, Section 9, Proposition 9.1 (pages 223-226), and Section 10, Proposition 10.2 and equations (45)-(50) (pages 228-232). Part II: Products in quasisimple groups, Annals of Mathematics 165 (2007), 239-273, DOI 10.4007/annals.2007.165.239, Theorem 1.2 and Lemma 4.1 (pages 247-248). These are formal adaptations and conditional consequences of published mathematics, with elementary finite-set growth supporting bounded-small coverage; no originality claim or redistribution of the papers is made. Large-simple scalar PRODUCT existence, quasisimple central covers, all-length Proposition 10.2, uniform width and restricted Burnside bounds, and full strong completeness remain unproved.