Missing Row Width Amplifier
Abstract
A fixed surjective component with no surjective row admits Boolean tasks with unbounded normalized-to-original width ratios.
Let X, Y and Z be arbitrary finite nonempty sets and fix a surjection phi from X times Y onto Z. Assume that no row y maps to phi(x,y) is surjective. For each natural number m greater than the size of X let K be the cyclic group of order m, and let A and B be two separately labelled copies of the functions from Z to K. Boolean values are denoted by 0 and 1; the indicator below is Boolean valued.
All products associate to the right. A tuple lists coordinates with their fixed labels. The singleton set has element star. The normalized order rho is (a,b,x,y), and the original order pi is (x,a,b,y). For a fixed m, the ten maps below fix exactly the displayed prefix and leave the displayed complementary suffix free. Their dependence on the same phi and m is suppressed.
For each order and each index from zero through four, P and T denote the prefix and suffix products in that map’s displayed type. The range is a set of actual functions on the entire labelled suffix product. Equality in a range is equality of functions on that same product. Each width is the maximum of all five range cardinalities, including the initial and terminal layers.
Theorem 1.1 (Uniform missing-row amplification).
Proof. Machine-checked in Lean as D5/S3/Observer/Separation/MissingRowWidthAmplifier.missing_row_width_amplifier (✓ std3). ∎
Source. Repository-derived.
Commentary.
All displayed conclusions hold jointly. The estimates for the original intermediate layers and original width are upper bounds; they need not be attained. The quotients are real quotients of the natural state counts. In the last clause, phi, X, Y and Z stay fixed while m varies. Only the auxiliary alphabets vary, and every individual task has a finite domain and Boolean output.
Every row image is nonempty and proper. To distinguish two normalized first-layer prefixes a and a prime, choose a coordinate z where they differ, use surjectivity to write z as phi(x,y), and complete with b equal to minus a. The first response is 1 there, and the second is 0. Thus the first-layer map is injective and has m to the power d distinct responses.
After (a,b), the normalized response factors through the Boolean zero-set function on Z. After (a,b,x), it factors through a pair consisting of x and a Boolean function on its row image. In the original order, the response after (x,a) factors through x and the restriction of a to its row image; after (x,a,b), it factors through x and the restriction of a+b to that image. These factorizations retain the displayed suffix labels, including when different row images intersect. Counting the disjoint unions over x gives the stated sums as upper bounds.
The initial prefix is a singleton. At the terminal layer, the suffix is a singleton and its two Boolean functions are attained by constant sums zero and one. Since m exceeds the size of X and every row has size between one and r, all five normalized capacities are at most m to the power d, and all five original capacities are at most the displayed sum. The exponent gap d-r is positive. Given R, choose a natural N greater than R times the size of X and take M to be the maximum of N and the size of X plus one. Every m at least M then satisfies the strict ratio inequality.