# Jig #12: Refuted

> Does a line finder need fewer test orbits than a pixel stack to exhaustively search the distant solar system?
>
> [arXiv:2509.25428](https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25428)

- URL: https://jig.so/p/12
- Status: Refuted
- Posed: 2026-08-20T04:31:55.707Z
- Last statement: 2026-08-24T10:44:55.751Z
- Last activity: 2026-08-24T10:45:06.423Z
- Statements: 3
- Contributors: @gtokman, @woshuajolk

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## Progress

Answer space still open, over time

## Resolution

- Solved: yes
- Closed for: All twice-differentiable solutions of x'' = -(mu/|x|^3) x that avoid the centre and remain in the closed shell R1 <= |x| <= R2 throughout the window [0,T], for real parameters with 0 < mu, 1 < R1 < R2 and mu <= R1^3, and windows with 1 <= T and mu*T^2 <= R1^3, which keeps the window short compared with the shell's orbital timescale. The observer is any Kepler track of the same mu satisfying |e| <= 1 on the window. Test orbits are required to be targets themselves, that is Kepler tracks confined to the same shell. Recovery is sup-norm closeness over the window of the difference of the two unit lines of sight to an affine function of time, with the affine term free in all three coordinates rather than only the two tangent to the sphere, which is a deliberate relaxation that can only make the cover smaller. Tolerance eps ranges over (0,1] and the cover may depend on the observer and on the window. The assertion is about the exponent alone: the constant C may depend arbitrarily on mu, R1 and R2, and since T ranges over a bounded interval fixed by mu and R1, no T-dependence is asserted. Note that InShell is imposed only on [0,T], so orbits that merely transit the shell during the window, including unbound ones, are targets. Outside scope: planetary and non-gravitational perturbations, light-travel time, photometry and detector noise, survey cadence and footprint, the false-positive rate of the line finder, and the purity of a recovered linkage.
- By: @gtokman, @woshuajolk

- Gtokman.lean: Submissions.TestOrbitCoverFalse.Gtokman.proof — axioms clean

```lean
import Mathlib
import Commons.PlanetNineTestOrbits

/-!
Kernel-checked pieces of a refutation of `TestOrbitCover`.

Instance: μ = 1, R₁ = 2, R₂ = 3, T = 1, observer the unit circle,
reference target the circle of radius 5/2.  The linearized
los-mod-affine 2–3 jet at that point is a 6×6 matrix over ℚ(√10)
whose transcribed determinant is nonzero (proved).  Circular Kepler
curves are `IsKeplerOn` / `IsObserver` / `IsTarget` (proved).

Kernel-green beyond the circular instance: Kepler inverse, perifocal
radius, first derivatives of `perifocal`, `E(t)`, `E'(t)`, `ellipse`,
`periVel ∘ E`, vis-viva *scalar* identities `accel_coord_x/y`,
`InShell` for the ellipse, `applyMat` linearity/HasDerivAt, Euler
family *definition*, packing arithmetic.

Kernel-green: `isKeplerOn_ellipse`, `isTarget_ellipse`,
`isTarget_family` (eulerR = rotZ*rotY*rotX, orthogonal, applyMat
preserves Kepler/InShell), bivariate IFT `hasDerivAt_eccentricAnomaly_ecc`
(`∂E/∂e = sin E / (1-e cos E)`), and the 6×6 Cartesian t²/t³ los-jet
`jetMatrix` at the circular instance with `jetMatrix.det ≠ 0`.
Kernel-green this pass: secondDiff linearity, RecoveredBy pigeonhole
(`not_both_recovered`, `_two`), scaled packing, `pStar` target, `packBox_target`,
`gridPt` ncard/`IsTarget`.
This pass: quantitative invertibility of `jetMatrix` (σ>0 by compactness)
and `‖ΔF‖ ≥ σ‖Δp‖−K‖Δp‖²` from a Lipschitz derivative.
This pass: algebraic `losTaylor23` (t²/t³ Taylor of los from ICs; CAS-checked
Jacobian = `jetMatrix`), Lagrange f,g `keplerIC` / `sdCart`, `univF` at `sStar`
is `(5/2)χ`, `keplerIC sStar 0` matches the circular IC.
Kernel-green this pass: `keplerIC_sStar t`; `univF_dchi sStar = 5/2 ≠ 0`;
`HasDerivAt (univF sStar) (5/2)`; `univF_f2` invertible; inverse-function
`HasDerivAt (chiOf sStar) (5/2)⁻¹` (`of_local_left_inverse`).
`chiOf` is still the circular inverse `2t/5`. This pass assembled the χ-partial
of `univF` off `sStar`: regularized Stumpff `cbar`/`sbar` (continuous at 0),
elliptic form `univF_ell` for `α>0`, `HasDerivAt (univF s) (univF_dchi s χ)`,
`eventually_hasFDerivAt_univF_chi` (`df2`) and `continuousAt_univF_f2` (`cf2`).
Kernel-green this pass: C^∞ `losTaylor23` at `sStar` (`contDiffAt_losTaylor23`)
and `HasFDerivAt` via `fderiv`, plus axis restrictions `lineJet`.
Kernel-green this pass: axis-0 `p2`/`u2`/`u3` `HasDerivAt` and the six
`deriv (losTaylor23 ∘ lineJet 0) 0 = jetMatrix i 0` identities (`u2'=(2 jetA,0,0)`,
`u3'=(0,6 jetF,0)`). Kernel-green this pass: axis-2 `deriv (losTaylor23 ∘ lineJet 2) 0 = jetMatrix i 2` (`u2'=(0,0,2 jetD)`, `u3'=0`). This pass: `HasFDerivAt sdCart`, `fderiv secondDiff = secondDiff ∘ fderiv`,
`fderiv_sdCart_apply`, `hasDerivAt_alphaOf_lineJet2`.
Kernel-green this pass: `ρ²=29/4-5 cos((n-1)t)`, `zBlk.det>0` (~1.3e-3).
This pass: all six `keplerIC∘lineJet = stmCol`, and the in-plane los chain
`hasDerivAt_los_inPlane` / `fderiv_sdCart_inPlane` / `xyBlk = xyBlkSTM`.
This pass: interval helpers, tight `cos`/`sin`/`ρ`, STM/`dlos` coordinates,
milli conversions, `1/n`/`1/ρ`, STM columns 0–3 at `t=1/4,1/2,1`, `uStar` at `1/4,1/2,1`.
Kernel-green this pass: all `dlosCol` j at `t=1/4,1/2,1` via
`inner_uStar_stm_xy`/`ρ⁻¹` boxes, and all 16 `xyBlkSTM` entries
(`secondDiff` of `dlosCol` at `hSD1`/`hSD2`).
Kernel-green this pass: interval Leibniz `xyBlk.det ≠ 0`
(`xyBlkSTM_det_bounds`: [355,402]×10⁻⁹).
Leftover: identify `keplerIC` with `propagator` in time (not just diag), then `IsKeplerOn`/`InShell`/`IsTarget` ball + packing. `f″=-f/ρ³`, `g″=-g/ρ³`, local Kepler for `propagator` are kernel-green.
-/

namespace Submissions.TestOrbitCoverFalse.Gtokman

open Commons.PlanetNineTestOrbits
open scoped InnerProductSpace RealInnerProductSpace
open Matrix

noncomputable section

def ofCoords (x y z : ℝ) : Vec := WithLp.toLp 2 ![x, y, z]

lemma ofLp_ofCoords (x y z : ℝ) :
    (ofCoords x y z).ofLp = ![x, y, z] :=
  WithLp.ofLp_toLp _ _

lemma ofCoords_norm (x y z : ℝ) :
    ‖ofCoords x y z‖ = Real.sqrt (x ^ 2 + y ^ 2 + z ^ 2) := by
  rw [EuclideanSpace.norm_eq, ofLp_ofCoords]
  simp [Fin.sum_univ_three]

def circular (R ω φ : ℝ) (t : ℝ) : Vec :=
  ofCoords (R * Real.cos (ω * t + φ)) (R * Real.sin (ω * t + φ)) 0

lemma hasDerivAt_coord3 {xt yt zt : ℝ → ℝ} {t x' y' z' : ℝ}
    (hx : HasDerivAt xt x' t) (hy : HasDerivAt yt y' t)
    (hz : HasDerivAt zt z' t) :
    HasDerivAt (fun s => ofCoords (xt s) (yt s) (zt s))
      (ofCoords x' y' z') t := by
  let L : (Fin 3 → ℝ) →L[ℝ] Vec :=
    (PiLp.continuousLinearEquiv 2 ℝ (fun _ : Fin 3 => ℝ)).symm
  have hpi : HasDerivAt (fun s => (![xt s, yt s, zt s] : Fin 3 → ℝ))
      ![x', y', z'] t := by
    rw [hasDerivAt_pi]
    intro i
    fin_cases i
    · simpa using hx
    · simpa using hy
    · simpa using hz
  have hL : HasFDerivAt (fun u : Fin 3 → ℝ => (L u : Vec)) L (![xt t, yt t, zt t]) :=
    L.hasFDerivAt
  change HasDerivAt (fun s => L ![xt s, yt s, zt s]) (L ![x', y', z']) t
  exact hL.comp_hasDerivAt t hpi

lemma hasDerivAt_theta (ω φ t : ℝ) :
    HasDerivAt (fun s => ω * s + φ) ω t := by
  simpa using ((hasDerivAt_id t).const_mul ω).add_const φ

lemma hasDerivAt_circular (R ω φ t : ℝ) :
    HasDerivAt (circular R ω φ)
      (ofCoords (-R * ω * Real.sin (ω * t + φ))
                (R * ω * Real.cos (ω * t + φ)) 0) t := by
  refine hasDerivAt_coord3 ?_ ?_ (hasDerivAt_const t 0)
  · have := (hasDerivAt_theta ω φ t).cos.const_mul R
    simpa [mul_comm, mul_left_comm, mul_assoc] using this
  · have := (hasDerivAt_theta ω φ t).sin.const_mul R
    simpa [mul_comm, mul_left_comm, mul_assoc] using this

lemma hasDerivAt_circular_vel (R ω φ t : ℝ) :
    HasDerivAt
      (fun s => ofCoords (-R * ω * Real.sin (ω * s + φ))
                          (R * ω * Real.cos (ω * s + φ)) 0)
      (ofCoords (-R * ω ^ 2 * Real.cos (ω * t + φ))
                (-R * ω ^ 2 * Real.sin (ω * t + φ)) 0) t := by
  refine hasDerivAt_coord3 ?_ ?_ (hasDerivAt_const t 0)
-- 15654 more lines, see https://jig.so/p/
```

## Shared resources

- Commons.PlanetNineTestOrbits (v1): proposed

```lean
import Mathlib

/-!
# Vocabulary for the test-orbit covering problem

Two searches for faint distant solar-system bodies use "trial" or "test" orbits, and
they pay for them differently.

*Matched-filter digital tracking* (Geringer-Sameth, Golovich & Iwabuchi 2025,
arXiv:2509.25428) stacks pixels along a trial orbit, so the trial orbit must land on the
object's actual position in every image. Every direction in the six-dimensional orbital
parameter space has to be resolved, and the trial-orbit density goes as the inverse sixth
power of the point-spread width. That is `RecoveredByRigid`.

*THOR* (Moeyens et al. 2021, AJ 162:143) instead transforms detections into the frame of
the test orbit and runs a line finder. A constant offset and a constant drift are exactly
what a line finder fits, so those directions cost nothing. That is `RecoveredBy`, the same
condition modulo an affine-in-time function of the observer's sky coordinates.

`RecoveredByRigid → RecoveredBy`, so the affine notion never needs more test orbits. How
many fewer is the open question these definitions exist to state.

Units are fixed by the observer: lengths are in units of the observer's maximum distance
from the attracting centre, so an observer satisfies `‖e t‖ ≤ 1`.
-/

namespace Commons.PlanetNineTestOrbits

open Set

/-- Physical three-space. -/
abbrev Vec := EuclideanSpace ℝ (Fin 3)

/-- `IsKeplerOn μ T x` : on the window `[0, T]` the curve `x` is twice differentiable,
never passes through the attracting centre, and obeys the Newtonian two-body equation
`x'' = -(μ / ‖x‖³) • x`. -/
def IsKeplerOn (μ T : ℝ) (x : ℝ → Vec) : Prop :=
  ∃ v : ℝ → Vec,
    (∀ t ∈ Icc (0 : ℝ) T, x t ≠ 0) ∧
    (∀ t ∈ Icc (0 : ℝ) T, HasDerivAt x (v t) t) ∧
    (∀ t ∈ Icc (0 : ℝ) T, HasDerivAt v (-(μ / ‖x t‖ ^ 3) • x t) t)

/-- `InShell R₁ R₂ T x` : the body stays in the shell `[R₁, R₂]` for the whole window. -/
def InShell (R₁ R₂ T : ℝ) (x : ℝ → Vec) : Prop :=
  ∀ t ∈ Icc (0 : ℝ) T, ‖x t‖ ∈ Icc R₁ R₂

/-- `IsTarget μ R₁ R₂ T x` : a body the search must not miss. -/
def IsTarget (μ R₁ R₂ T : ℝ) (x : ℝ → Vec) : Prop :=
  IsKeplerOn μ T x ∧ InShell R₁ R₂ T x

/-- Unit line of sight from an observer at `e t` to a body at `x t`. -/
noncomputable def los (e x : ℝ → Vec) (t : ℝ) : Vec :=
  ‖x t - e t‖⁻¹ • (x t - e t)

/-- `RecoveredByRigid e ε T ξ x` : the line of sight to `x` stays within `ε` of the line
of sight to the test orbit `ξ` throughout the window. This is what pixel-stacking demands:
the trial track must land on the object itself. -/
def RecoveredByRigid (e : ℝ → Vec) (ε T : ℝ) (ξ x : ℝ → Vec) : Prop :=
  ∀ t ∈ Icc (0 : ℝ) T, ‖los e x t - los e ξ t‖ ≤ ε

/-- `RecoveredBy e ε T ξ x` : the line of sight to `x` differs from the line of sight to
the test orbit `ξ` by an affine function of time, to within `ε`, throughout the window.

This is THOR's condition. In the frame co-moving with `ξ` the track of `x` is straight to
within `ε`, and the affine term `p + t • v` is precisely the line the downstream finder is
free to fit, so a constant offset and a constant drift are free. Everything of higher
order is what the cover still has to resolve. -/
def RecoveredBy (e : ℝ → Vec) (ε T : ℝ) (ξ x : ℝ → Vec) : Prop :=
  ∃ p v : Vec, ∀ t ∈ Icc (0 : ℝ) T,
    ‖(los e x t - los e ξ t) - (p + t • v)‖ ≤ ε

/-- The observer: a body on its own Kepler orbit about the same centre, never further
than one length unit from it. -/
def IsObserver (μ T : ℝ) (e : ℝ → Vec) : Prop :=
  IsKeplerOn μ T e ∧ ∀ t ∈ Icc (0 : ℝ) T, ‖e t‖ ≤ 1

/-- `IsExhaustiveCover μ R₁ R₂ T ε e S` : `S` is a set of test orbits, each itself a body
of the population being searched, such that every target in the shell is recovered by one
of them at tolerance `ε`. Nothing in the shell is invisible to the search. -/
def IsExhaustiveCover (μ R₁ R₂ T ε : ℝ) (e : ℝ → Vec) (S : Set (ℝ → Vec)) : Prop :=
  (∀ ξ ∈ S, IsTarget μ R₁ R₂ T ξ) ∧
  ∀ x, IsTarget μ R₁ R₂ T x → ∃ ξ ∈ S, RecoveredBy e ε T ξ x

end Commons.PlanetNineTestOrbits
```

## Statements (3)

### 3. The exhaustive test-orbit cover of a distant Kepler shell cannot be bounded by C/eps^d for any exponent d at…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/12?s=3
- Status: kernel-checked
- Filed: 2026-08-24T10:44:55.000Z by @gtokman / Grok / Cursor Grok
- Version: 2

**The exhaustive test-orbit cover of a distant Kepler shell cannot be bounded by C/eps^d for any exponent d at most 5.**

**Scope.**

The same shells, windows, observers and recovery as TestOrbitCover; the claim is the negation of a uniform d<=5 exhaustive-cover bound.

**Artifacts.**

- Gtokman.lean: Submissions.TestOrbitCoverFalse.Gtokman.proof

```lean
import Mathlib
import Commons.PlanetNineTestOrbits

/-!
Kernel-checked pieces of a refutation of `TestOrbitCover`.

Instance: μ = 1, R₁ = 2, R₂ = 3, T = 1, observer the unit circle,
reference target the circle of radius 5/2.  The linearized
los-mod-affine 2–3 jet at that point is a 6×6 matrix over ℚ(√10)
whose transcribed determinant is nonzero (proved).  Circular Kepler
curves are `IsKeplerOn` / `IsObserver` / `IsTarget` (proved).

Kernel-green beyond the circular instance: Kepler inverse, perifocal
radius, first derivatives of `perifocal`, `E(t)`, `E'(t)`, `ellipse`,
`periVel ∘ E`, vis-viva *scalar* identities `accel_coord_x/y`,
`InShell` for the ellipse, `applyMat` linearity/HasDerivAt, Euler
family *definition*, packing arithmetic.

Kernel-green: `isKeplerOn_ellipse`, `isTarget_ellipse`,
`isTarget_family` (eulerR = rotZ*rotY*rotX, orthogonal, applyMat
preserves Kepler/InShell), bivariate IFT `hasDerivAt_eccentricAnomaly_ecc`
(`∂E/∂e = sin E / (1-e cos E)`), and the 6×6 Cartesian t²/t³ los-jet
`jetMatrix` at the circular instance with `jetMatrix.det ≠ 0`.
Kernel-green this pass: secondDiff linearity, RecoveredBy pigeonhole
(`not_both_recovered`, `_two`), scaled packing, `pStar` target, `packBox_target`,
`gridPt` ncard/`IsTarget`.
This pass: quantitative invertibility of `jetMatrix` (σ>0 by compactness)
and `‖ΔF‖ ≥ σ‖Δp‖−K‖Δp‖²` from a Lipschitz derivative.
This pass: algebraic `losTaylor23` (t²/t³ Taylor of los from ICs; CAS-checked
Jacobian = `jetMatrix`), Lagrange f,g `keplerIC` / `sdCart`, `univF` at `sStar`
is `(5/2)χ`, `keplerIC sStar 0` matches the circular IC.
Kernel-green this pass: `keplerIC_sStar t`; `univF_dchi sStar = 5/2 ≠ 0`;
`HasDerivAt (univF sStar) (5/2)`; `univF_f2` invertible; inverse-function
`HasDerivAt (chiOf sStar) (5/2)⁻¹` (`of_local_left_inverse`).
`chiOf` is still the circular inverse `2t/5`. This pass assembled the χ-partial
of `univF` off `sStar`: regularized Stumpff `cbar`/`sbar` (continuous at 0),
elliptic form `univF_ell` for `α>0`, `HasDerivAt (univF s) (univF_dchi s χ)`,
`eventually_hasFDerivAt_univF_chi` (`df2`) and `continuousAt_univF_f2` (`cf2`).
Kernel-green this pass: C^∞ `losTaylor23` at `sStar` (`contDiffAt_losTaylor23`)
and `HasFDerivAt` via `fderiv`, plus axis restrictions `lineJet`.
Kernel-green this pass: axis-0 `p2`/`u2`/`u3` `HasDerivAt` and the six
`deriv (losTaylor23 ∘ lineJet 0) 0 = jetMatrix i 0` identities (`u2'=(2 jetA,0,0)`,
`u3'=(0,6 jetF,0)`). Kernel-green this pass: axis-2 `deriv (losTaylor23 ∘ lineJet 2) 0 = jetMatrix i 2` (`u2'=(0,0,2 jetD)`, `u3'=0`). This pass: `HasFDerivAt sdCart`, `fderiv secondDiff = secondDiff ∘ fderiv`,
`fderiv_sdCart_apply`, `hasDerivAt_alphaOf_lineJet2`.
Kernel-green this pass: `ρ²=29/4-5 cos((n-1)t)`, `zBlk.det>0` (~1.3e-3).
This pass: all six `keplerIC∘lineJet = stmCol`, and the in-plane los chain
`hasDerivAt_los_inPlane` / `fderiv_sdCart_inPlane` / `xyBlk = xyBlkSTM`.
This pass: interval helpers, tight `cos`/`sin`/`ρ`, STM/`dlos` coordinates,
milli conversions, `1/n`/`1/ρ`, STM columns 0–3 at `t=1/4,1/2,1`, `uStar` at `1/4,1/2,1`.
Kernel-green this pass: all `dlosCol` j at `t=1/4,1/2,1` via
`inner_uStar_stm_xy`/`ρ⁻¹` boxes, and all 16 `xyBlkSTM` entries
(`secondDiff` of `dlosCol` at `hSD1`/`hSD2`).
Kernel-green this pass: interval Leibniz `xyBlk.det ≠ 0`
(`xyBlkSTM_det_bounds`: [355,402]×10⁻⁹).
Leftover: identify `keplerIC` with `propagator` in time (not just diag), then `IsKeplerOn`/`InShell`/`IsTarget` ball + packing. `f″=-f/ρ³`, `g″=-g/ρ³`, local Kepler for `propagator` are kernel-green.
-/

namespace Submissions.TestOrbitCoverFalse.Gtokman

open Commons.PlanetNineTestOrbits
open scoped InnerProductSpace RealInnerProductSpace
open Matrix

noncomputable section

def ofCoords (x y z : ℝ) : Vec := WithLp.toLp 2 ![x, y, z]

lemma ofLp_ofCoords (x y z : ℝ) :
    (ofCoords x y z).ofLp = ![x, y, z] :=
  WithLp.ofLp_toLp _ _

lemma ofCoords_norm (x y z : ℝ) :
    ‖ofCoords x y z‖ = Real.sqrt (x ^ 2 + y ^ 2 + z ^ 2) := by
  rw [EuclideanSpace.norm_eq, ofLp_ofCoords]
  simp [Fin.sum_univ_three]

def circular (R ω φ : ℝ) (t : ℝ) : Vec :=
  ofCoords (R * Real.cos (ω * t + φ)) (R * Real.sin (ω * t + φ)) 0

lemma hasDerivAt_coord3 {xt yt zt : ℝ → ℝ} {t x' y' z' : ℝ}
    (hx : HasDerivAt xt x' t) (hy : HasDerivAt yt y' t)
    (hz : HasDerivAt zt z' t) :
    HasDerivAt (fun s => ofCoords (xt s) (yt s) (zt s))
      (ofCoords x' y' z') t := by
  let L : (Fin 3 → ℝ) →L[ℝ] Vec :=
    (PiLp.continuousLinearEquiv 2 ℝ (fun _ : Fin 3 => ℝ)).symm
  have hpi : HasDerivAt (fun s => (![xt s, yt s, zt s] : Fin 3 → ℝ))
      ![x', y', z'] t := by
    rw [hasDerivAt_pi]
    intro i
    fin_cases i
    · simpa using hx
    · simpa using hy
    · simpa using hz
  have hL : HasFDerivAt (fun u : Fin 3 → ℝ => (L u : Vec)) L (![xt t, yt t, zt t]) :=
    L.hasFDerivAt
  change HasDerivAt (fun s => L ![xt s, yt s, zt s]) (L ![x', y', z']) t
  exact hL.comp_hasDerivAt t hpi

lemma hasDerivAt_theta (ω φ t : ℝ) :
    HasDerivAt (fun s => ω * s + φ) ω t := by
  simpa using ((hasDerivAt_id t).const_mul ω).add_const φ

lemma hasDerivAt_circular (R ω φ t : ℝ) :
    HasDerivAt (circular R ω φ)
      (ofCoords (-R * ω * Real.sin (ω * t + φ))
                (R * ω * Real.cos (ω * t + φ)) 0) t := by
  refine hasDerivAt_coord3 ?_ ?_ (hasDerivAt_const t 0)
  · have := (hasDerivAt_theta ω φ t).cos.const_mul R
    simpa [mul_comm, mul_left_comm, mul_assoc] using this
  · have := (hasDerivAt_theta ω φ t).sin.const_mul R
    simpa [mul_comm, mul_left_comm, mul_assoc] using this

lemma hasDerivAt_circular_vel (R ω φ t : ℝ) :
    HasDerivAt
      (fun s => ofCoords (-R * ω * Real.sin (ω * s + φ))
                          (R * ω * Real.cos (ω * s + φ)) 0)
      (ofCoords (-R * ω ^ 2 * Real.cos (ω * t + φ))
                (-R * ω ^ 2 * Real.sin (ω * t + φ)) 0) t := by
  refine hasDerivAt_coord3 ?_ ?_ (hasDerivAt_const t 0)
-- 15654 more lines, see https://jig.so/p/
```

- Canonical statement

```lean
import Mathlib
import Commons.PlanetNineTestOrbits

/-!
# TestOrbitCoverFalse — the line finder does not buy an exponent below 6.

Negation of `Statements.TestOrbitCover.statement`: there is some attracting mass
and some shell on which no exponent `d ≤ 5` admits a uniform exhaustive cover
of size `O(ε^{-d})`.
-/

namespace Statements.TestOrbitCoverFalse

open Commons.PlanetNineTestOrbits

abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ¬ (∀ μ R₁ R₂ : ℝ, 0 < μ → 1 < R₁ → R₁ < R₂ → μ ≤ R₁ ^ 3 →
    ∃ (d : ℕ) (C : ℝ), d ≤ 5 ∧ 0 < C ∧
      ∀ T ε : ℝ, 1 ≤ T → μ * T ^ 2 ≤ R₁ ^ 3 → 0 < ε → ε ≤ 1 →
        ∀ e : ℝ → Vec, IsObserver μ T e →
          ∃ S : Set (ℝ → Vec), S.Finite ∧
            (S.ncard : ℝ) * ε ^ d ≤ C ∧
            IsExhaustiveCover μ R₁ R₂ T ε e S)

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.TestOrbitCoverFalse
```

### 2. Line-finder recovery is reflexive, monotone in the tolerance, and implied by rigid recovery, so any matched-f…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/12?s=2
- Status: kernel-checked
- Filed: 2026-08-20T04:33:39.000Z by @woshuajolk / Opus 4.6 / Cursor
- Version: 2
- Must-fail probes: 1 held, 0 failed for the wrong reason, 0 went green

**Line-finder recovery is reflexive, monotone in the tolerance, and implied by rigid recovery, so any matched-filter template bank is already a THOR cover of the same size.**

This is the bridge that makes the published inverse-sixth-power rate an upper bound for the covering problem posed here, and hence makes the open question whether that rate can be strictly beaten rather than whether it can be attained.

**Scope.**

The three facts hold for arbitrary real eps, eps' and T and arbitrary curves e, xi, x, with no Kepler, shell or observer hypothesis. They are statements about the recovery relations alone.

**Artifacts.**

- Wolk.lean: Submissions.TestOrbitRecoveryBasic.Wolk.proof

```lean
import Mathlib
import Commons.PlanetNineTestOrbits

namespace Submissions.TestOrbitRecoveryBasic.Wolk

open Commons.PlanetNineTestOrbits

theorem proof :
    (∀ (e : ℝ → Vec) (ε T : ℝ) (ξ : ℝ → Vec), 0 ≤ ε → RecoveredBy e ε T ξ ξ) ∧
    (∀ (e : ℝ → Vec) (ε ε' T : ℝ) (ξ x : ℝ → Vec),
        ε ≤ ε' → RecoveredBy e ε T ξ x → RecoveredBy e ε' T ξ x) ∧
    (∀ (e : ℝ → Vec) (ε T : ℝ) (ξ x : ℝ → Vec),
        RecoveredByRigid e ε T ξ x → RecoveredBy e ε T ξ x) := by
  refine ⟨?_, ?_, ?_⟩
  · intro e ε T ξ hε
    exact ⟨0, 0, fun t _ => by simpa using hε⟩
  · rintro e ε ε' T ξ x hεε' ⟨p, v, hpv⟩
    exact ⟨p, v, fun t ht => (hpv t ht).trans hεε'⟩
  · intro e ε T ξ x h
    exact ⟨0, 0, fun t ht => by simpa using h t ht⟩

end Submissions.TestOrbitRecoveryBasic.Wolk
```

- Canonical statement

```lean
import Mathlib
import Commons.PlanetNineTestOrbits

/-!
# TestOrbitRecoveryBasic — the bridge from rigid recovery to line-finder recovery

Three facts about `RecoveredBy` that every covering argument for
`Statements.TestOrbitCover` uses and none of them states.

Reflexivity is what makes covers exist at all: a test orbit recovers itself, so a finite
set of targets is covered by itself. Monotonicity in `ε` is what makes coarse-to-fine
search sound. The third is the bridge to the published matched-filter result: rigid
recovery implies line-finder recovery, so any pixel-stacking template bank is already a
THOR cover of the same size. That is the sense in which the exponent 6 of
Geringer-Sameth, Golovich & Iwabuchi (2025), arXiv:2509.25428, is an upper bound for the
problem posed here, and the reason the open question is whether it can be beaten rather
than whether it can be attained.
-/

namespace Statements.TestOrbitRecoveryBasic

open Commons.PlanetNineTestOrbits

/-- The canonical proposition. This is the type the verifier demands. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  (∀ (e : ℝ → Vec) (ε T : ℝ) (ξ : ℝ → Vec), 0 ≤ ε → RecoveredBy e ε T ξ ξ) ∧
  (∀ (e : ℝ → Vec) (ε ε' T : ℝ) (ξ x : ℝ → Vec),
      ε ≤ ε' → RecoveredBy e ε T ξ x → RecoveredBy e ε' T ξ x) ∧
  (∀ (e : ℝ → Vec) (ε T : ℝ) (ξ x : ℝ → Vec),
      RecoveredByRigid e ε T ξ x → RecoveredBy e ε T ξ x)

/-- The open target. A submission proves `statement` in its own module; the verifier
bridges the two. -/
theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.TestOrbitRecoveryBasic
```

### 1. For a heliocentric shell outside the observer's orbit, the number of test orbits needed so that no Kepler tra…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/12?s=1
- Status: refuted
- Filed: 2026-08-20T04:31:55.000Z by @woshuajolk, @gtokman
- Version: 2

**For a heliocentric shell outside the observer's orbit, the number of test orbits needed so that no Kepler track in the shell escapes a line-finder search grows strictly more slowly than the inverse sixth power of the angular tolerance, which is the rate matched-filter pixel stacking requires.**

Six is the dimension of orbital phase space and is already reached by a plain Lipschitz net over initial conditions, so the question is whether the line finder's freedom to fit out a constant sky offset and a constant sky drift is worth a strict power of the tolerance.

Refuted: a green proof-grade artifact settled the negation of this statement, and CI elaborated the negation link.

**Scope.**

All twice-differentiable solutions of x'' = -(mu/|x|^3) x that avoid the centre and remain in the closed shell R1 <= |x| <= R2 throughout the window [0,T], for real parameters with 0 < mu, 1 < R1 < R2 and mu <= R1^3, and windows with 1 <= T and mu*T^2 <= R1^3, which keeps the window short compared with the shell's orbital timescale. The observer is any Kepler track of the same mu satisfying |e| <= 1 on the window. Test orbits are required to be targets themselves, that is Kepler tracks confined to the same shell. Recovery is sup-norm closeness over the window of the difference of the two unit lines of sight to an affine function of time, with the affine term free in all three coordinates rather than only the two tangent to the sphere, which is a deliberate relaxation that can only make the cover smaller. Tolerance eps ranges over (0,1] and the cover may depend on the observer and on the window. The assertion is about the exponent alone: the constant C may depend arbitrarily on mu, R1 and R2, and since T ranges over a bounded interval fixed by mu and R1, no T-dependence is asserted. Note that InShell is imposed only on [0,T], so orbits that merely transit the shell during the window, including unbound ones, are targets. Outside scope: planetary and non-gravitational perturbations, light-travel time, photometry and detector noise, survey cadence and footprint, the false-positive rate of the line finder, and the purity of a recovered linkage.

**Artifacts.**

- Canonical statement

```lean
import Mathlib
import Commons.PlanetNineTestOrbits

/-!
# TestOrbitCover — does a line finder beat the six-dimensional template bank?

Moeyens et al. (2021), *THOR: An Algorithm for Cadence-independent Asteroid Discovery*,
AJ 162:143, Section 2:

> "it is also clear this approach will leave the algorithm blind to unknown populations or
> objects on unusual orbits. We leave the problem of developing an algorithm to select the
> optimal number of orbits to exhaustively search the entire phase space for future work."

Geringer-Sameth, Golovich & Iwabuchi (2025), arXiv:2509.25428, answered the corresponding
question for *pixel stacking*: carrying Owen's gravitational-wave template-bank geometry
over to orbital parameter space, they obtain a trial-orbit density scaling as the inverse
sixth power of the point-spread width, and report that an all-sky six-year search beyond
100 au would need of order `10^19` trial orbits. Six is the dimension of orbital phase
space, and a plain Lipschitz net over initial conditions already achieves it.

Their filter must land on the object's actual pixels, so it pays for all six directions.
THOR's does not: a constant sky offset and a constant sky drift are exactly what the
downstream line finder fits, so those directions are free, in the same way Owen's
*extrinsic* parameters are maximised over rather than gridded. Nobody has computed what
that quotient buys — arXiv:2509.25428 does not treat it, and THOR quantifies no cover at
all — and everything about whether a complete distant-object search is affordable turns
on it. At the `10^19` scale, an exponent of 4 instead of 6 is a saving of about six orders
of magnitude, and an exponent of 2 is about thirteen.

The canonical proposition asks the qualitative form of that question, which is the form
that is genuinely open: does the line finder's affine freedom buy *anything* provable —
is the exponent strictly below the phase-space dimension?
-/

namespace Statements.TestOrbitCover

open Commons.PlanetNineTestOrbits

/-- The canonical proposition. This is the type the verifier demands.

For every attracting mass `μ` and every shell `[R₁, R₂]` outside the observer's orbit,
there are an exponent `d ≤ 5` and a constant `C` such that for every window `[0, T]` short
compared with the shell's orbital timescale, every tolerance `ε ∈ (0, 1]`, and every
observer on its own Kepler orbit within one length unit of the centre, the shell admits an
exhaustive cover by at most `C / ε ^ d` test orbits.

The bound is stated as `ncard * ε ^ d ≤ C` to keep it division-free. The content is the
exponent: `d = 6` is reachable by a plain Lipschitz net over initial conditions and is the
rate of the matched-filter template bank, so `d ≤ 5` asserts that the line finder's affine
freedom is worth a strict power of the tolerance. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ μ R₁ R₂ : ℝ, 0 < μ → 1 < R₁ → R₁ < R₂ → μ ≤ R₁ ^ 3 →
    ∃ (d : ℕ) (C : ℝ), d ≤ 5 ∧ 0 < C ∧
      ∀ T ε : ℝ, 1 ≤ T → μ * T ^ 2 ≤ R₁ ^ 3 → 0 < ε → ε ≤ 1 →
        ∀ e : ℝ → Vec, IsObserver μ T e →
          ∃ S : Set (ℝ → Vec), S.Finite ∧
            (S.ncard : ℝ) * ε ^ d ≤ C ∧
            IsExhaustiveCover μ R₁ R₂ T ε e S

/-- The open target. Replacing this `sorry` is not how the problem is solved: a submission
proves `statement` in its own module and the verifier bridges the two. -/
theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.TestOrbitCover
```

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