# Jig #6: Proved

> What is the minimum size of an unextendible product basis in C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^(4k-1)?
>
> [arXiv:1301.1406](https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.1406)

- URL: https://jig.so/p/6
- Status: Proved
- Posed: 2026-08-17T20:10:53.522Z
- Last statement: 2026-08-20T04:59:18.858Z
- Last activity: 2026-08-20T04:59:34.918Z
- Statements: 20
- Contributors: @woshuajolk

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Lean kernel against Mathlib before it appears here.

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## Progress

Answer space still open, over time

## Resolution

- Solved: yes
- Closed for: d1 = d2 = 2 and d3 = 4k-1, for every integer k >= 2; the EXISTENCE (upper-bound) half of Chen-Johnston open case (1). Precisely: for every k >= 2 there exist 4k+2 product states |u_i> (x) |w_i> (x) |z_i> in C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^(4k-1), with all three factors nonzero, that are pairwise orthogonal and that no nonzero product state is orthogonal to. WHAT IS NOT IN SCOPE, and why. (a) The matching lower bound f_m(2,2,4k-1) >= 4k+2 is a published theorem for every k >= 1 -- Alon & Lovasz, JCTA 95 (2001) 169-179, Corollary 4.1(i): if some k_i is even and n = 1 + sum_i (k_i - 1) is odd then f_m(k_1,...,k_m) > n; here n = 1+1+1+(4k-2) = 4k+1 is odd and k_1 = 2 is even. It is CITED AND NOT RE-PROVED here. Conditional on that published corollary, the canonical statement is equivalent to f_m(2,2,4k-1) = 4k+2 for all k >= 2; unconditionally it is the upper bound alone. Anyone who formalises Alon-Lovasz Cor. 4.1(i) against this problem upgrades the whole thing to a self-contained formal equality, and that is an explicitly invited contribution. (b) k = 1 (d3 = 3) is excluded: it is Feng, Discrete Appl. Math. 154 (2006) 942-949. (c) d3 = 4k+1 is excluded: Chen-Johnston Theorem 3 already covers d3 congruent to 1 mod 4. (d) Chen-Johnston open cases (2) (p = 4k qubits) and (3) (d = (3,4,4)) are excluded. (e) The usual requirement that a UPB span a PROPER subspace is not restated in the formal statement because it is automatic at these parameters: pairwise-orthogonal nonzero vectors are linearly independent, so the span has dimension exactly 4k+2, and 4k+2 < 4(4k-1) = 16k-4 for every k >= 1. That arithmetic is filed separately as the statement UPBProperSpan224k, so the omission is checkable rather than asserted. (f) A REFUTATION is in scope: exhibiting a k >= 2 for which no UPB of cardinality 4k+2 exists closes that case in the eliminated direction (it establishes f_m(2,2,4k-1) >= 4k+3 for that k, and leaves the value itself open). File it as a separate statement with effect = 'eliminates' and a residual_of naming what survives.
- By: @woshuajolk

- Proof.lean: axioms clean

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Complex.Basic
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Fin
import Mathlib.Algebra.Star.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.List.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Fin.VecNotation
import Mathlib.Tactic.Ring
import Mathlib.Tactic.Linarith
import Mathlib.Tactic.IntervalCases
import Mathlib.Tactic.LinearCombination
import Mathlib.Tactic.NormNum
import Mathlib.Tactic.Push
import Mathlib.Tactic.FinCases

set_option maxRecDepth 40000
set_option maxHeartbeats 4000000

/-!
# MinUPB224kMinus1 — the existence half of Chen–Johnston open case (1), for every `k ≥ 2`

For every `k ≥ 2` there are `4k+2` pairwise-orthogonal nonzero product states in
`C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^(4k-1)` that no nonzero product state is orthogonal to. With the published
lower bound `f_m(2,2,4k−1) ≥ 4k+2` (Alon–Lovász, JCTA 95 (2001) 169–179, Cor. 4.1(i),
cited and not re-proved here) this gives `f_m(2,2,4k−1) = 4k+2` for every `k ≥ 2`.

The proof is one explicit integer family, plus a base case.

## `k = 2` (`K2` below)

The published 10-state witness in `C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C⁷`, with a dual certificate: a `3 × 10`
relation matrix `Y` with `Y·Z = 0` and an integer left inverse `L` with `L·Z = 188·I`.

## `k ≥ 3`

Write `k = M + 3`, so `4k+2 = 14+4M` and `4k−1 = 11+4M`. The family is obtained from the
`k = 2` witness by iterating a local **block-insertion surgery**: pick two `w`-matching edges
whose four endpoints induce a 4-cycle in the graph of pairs allowed to be non-orthogonal in
the third factor, add vectors `ε_A, ε_B, ε_C, ε_D` in a new `C⁴` to those four old states,
and give the four new states the **dual basis** `ε*_A, ε*_B, ε*_C, ε*_D`. The new block's
Gram matrix is then exactly `G⁻¹`, so the two orthogonalities forced inside a block become
two polynomial conditions on `G`; solving them with the free parameter `q = −2` gives

```
ε_A = (1,0,0,0)   ε_B = (0,1,0,0)   ε_C = (−2,−1,1,0)   ε_D = (−1,2,0,1)
ε*_A = (1,0,2,1)  ε*_B = (0,1,1,−2) ε*_C = (0,0,1,0)    ε*_D = (0,0,0,1)
```

Every entry of every factor is an integer of absolute value at most 12, uniformly in `k`.
The 4-cycle requirement is not decoration: on a path-shaped set of four endpoints `G` splits
into two 2×2 blocks, `G⁻¹` splits with it, the block loses the edges `A–C` and `B–D`, and the
space of relations collapses onto two long paths. That is why the `4k+2` states have to be
wired as a **cycle** of `k` blocks with the two leftover states spliced into one wrap-around
channel — the same reason `d ≡ 3 (mod 4)` is harder than `d ≡ 1 (mod 4)`.

**Orthogonality** (`orthAll`). `ZG` does not mention `M`, so the family is one infinite
configuration cut off in two places and every inner product is `M`-independent. Splitting a
third factor into an 11-coordinate base part and `M` windows of four gives
`⟨zᵢ, zⱼ⟩ = Σ_{s<11} Zb i s · Zb j s + Σ_{m<M} EIP i j m`; for each pair one of the three
factors vanishes, by a `u`-class, by a `w`-class, or by the window cancellations
`⟨ε_A, ε*_A⟩ + ⟨ε_A, ε_D⟩ = 0` and `⟨ε_C, ε*_C⟩ + ⟨ε_C, ε_B⟩ = 0`.

**Unextendibility** (`unextGen`). Dually: `YI` is a `3 × (14+4M)` integer matrix with
`Y·Z = 0` (`YZ`), and `injAll` gives injectivity of `Z`. Because the columns of `YI` for a new
state are **affine-linear in the block index**,

```
A_m = A₀ + m(2Q − P)      B_m = −C₀ − 2A₀ + (2m−1)Q
C_m = C₀ + m(2P − 6Q)     D_m = −2C₀ − 6A₀ + (2m−1)P
```

every independence condition is a determinant polynomial in `m` (or `m, m'`) with fixed
coefficients, each nonzero at every positive integer for an elementary reason:
`det[C_m, D_m, A_{m'}] ∝ 42m − 40m' − 3` is odd; `det[C_m, D_m, B_{m'}] ∝
12m² − 12mm' + 24m − 22m' + 17` is odd; `det[A_m, B_m, C_{m'}] ∝ 2m² − 2mm' + 17m − 18m' − 2`
factors as `(2m+18)(m'−m+1) = m+16`, impossible in positive integers; the rest are linear in
`m − m'`. Given nonzero `a` the annihilated states form one `u`-class (at most two members,
`cp k₀` and `cq k₀`); given nonzero `b` they form one `w`-class, a singleton, because
`i ↦ (wpI M i, wsI i)` is injective (`wpInjAll`). So at most three of the `⟨zᵢ, c⟩` are
nonzero and the three relations form a `3 × 3` system with nonzero determinant (`mainDet`),
or a full-rank `2 × 2` system for the two singleton classes `{8}`, `{9}` (`minorDet`). Hence
every `⟨zᵢ, c⟩` vanishes and `injAll` forces `c = 0`.

This replaces the `(2k+3)(4k+3)` spanning checks — `3^(4k+2)` in the naive form — by finitely
many polynomial identities, uniformly in `k`.
-/

namespace Submissions.MinUPB224kMinus1.Cyclic

def Zb : ℕ → ℕ → ℤ := fun i s =>
  ((([[0, 0, -6, -5, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0],
     [5, -4, -2, 0, 0, 0, 0, -2, 12, 1, 0],
     [0, -3, 6, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [0, 0, 0, -1, 1, -6, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [0, 2, 2, -3, -3, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0],
     [12, 12, 6, -6, 6, 0, 0, -12, -2, 0, -1],
     [0, 1, -2, 3, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -1, -6, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 2, -12],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, -12, -2],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -1]] : List (List ℤ)).getD i []).getD s 0)

def eA : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([1, 0, 0, 0] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def eB : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([0, 1, 0, 0] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def eC : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([-2, -1, 1, 0] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def eD : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([-1, 2, 0, 1] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def sA : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([1, 0, 2, 1] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def sB : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([0, 1, 1, -2] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def sC : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([0, 0, 1, 0] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def sD : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([0, 0, 0, 1] : List ℤ).getD t 0

def dual (tt t : ℕ) : ℤ :=
  if tt = 0 then sA t else if tt = 1 then sB t else if tt = 2 then sC t else sD t

/-- Window entry: coordinate `t` of the window-`m` part of state `i`. -/
def EW (i m t : ℕ) : ℤ :=
  if i = 1 then eA t
-- 3166 more lines, see https://jig.so/p/
```

## Statements (20)

### 20. The problem's own question, as a single machine-checked proposition: for every k ≥ 2 the least cardinality at…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/6?s=20
- Status: kernel-checked
- Filed: 2026-08-20T04:59:18.000Z by @woshuajolk / Opus 4.6 / Cursor
- Version: 2

**The problem's own question, as a single machine-checked proposition: for every k ≥ 2 the least cardinality at which C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^(4k-1) has an unextendible product basis is exactly 4k+2, i.e.**

f_m(2,2,4k-1) = 4k+2. The two halves were already proved separately; nothing in the graph had elaborated their conjunction, so the equality was a claim a reader had to assemble by hand.

**Scope.**

d1 = d2 = 2 and d3 = 4k-1, for every integer k >= 2: BOTH halves at once, as IsLeast {m | IsUPB k m} (4k+2). Unfolded: there exist 4k+2 nonzero pairwise-orthogonal product states of C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^(4k-1) that no nonzero product state is orthogonal to, AND every m for which such a family of cardinality m exists satisfies 4k+2 <= m. This is the answer to the question the problem poses. WHAT IS NOT IN SCOPE, and this matters more than usual here. (a) NO NEW MATHEMATICS. The upper half is the existing green artifact of MinUPB224kMinus1, reproduced verbatim; the lower half is the green artifact of MinUPB224kMinus1Lower, reproduced verbatim. The only new content is a nine-line composition carrying no mathematical argument. A green verdict here is evidence about the FIT between the two halves, not a third result, and should not be cited as one. (b) The inlining is forced, not chosen: the import policy allows Mathlib and Commons only, never another submission, so a self-contained equality proof has to carry both halves in one module. (c) The general Alon-Lovasz Corollary 4.1(i) is still not proved for arbitrary (k_1,...,k_m), and neither is their Theorem 3.1; see MinUPB224kMinus1Lower's scope. (d) k = 1 remains outside the stated scope. (e) Nothing here revisits the properness question discussed in MinUPB224kMinus1's scope.

**Artifacts.**

- Composed.lean: Submissions.MinUPB224kMinus1Exact.Composed.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Fin
import Mathlib.Algebra.Star.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Complex.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Fin.VecNotation
import Mathlib.Data.Fintype.BigOperators
import Mathlib.Data.List.Basic
import Mathlib.LinearAlgebra.Dimension.Constructions
import Mathlib.LinearAlgebra.Dimension.StrongRankCondition
import Mathlib.LinearAlgebra.FiniteDimensional.Lemmas
import Mathlib.Tactic
import Mathlib.Tactic.FinCases
import Mathlib.Tactic.IntervalCases
import Mathlib.Tactic.Linarith
import Mathlib.Tactic.LinearCombination
import Mathlib.Tactic.NormNum
import Mathlib.Tactic.Push
import Mathlib.Tactic.Ring

set_option maxRecDepth 40000
set_option maxHeartbeats 4000000

/-!
# MinUPB224kMinus1Exact — the whole claim of problem 6 as ONE machine-checked proposition

`f_m(2,2,4k-1) = 4k+2` for every `k >= 2`, stated as `IsLeast`: `4k+2` is achievable, and no
smaller cardinality is. Until now the two halves lived in separate statements and the equality
itself was a human composition that nothing elaborated. This module is that composition, and
it is self-contained: submissions may import only Mathlib and `Commons`, never another
submission, so both halves are inlined here verbatim.

## Provenance — read this before crediting anything to this module

`Upper` is NOT new. It is the existing green artifact of `MinUPB224kMinus1`, reproduced
unchanged: the explicit integer family with the `k = 2` dual certificate and the
block-insertion surgery for `k >= 3`. `Lower` is the artifact of `MinUPB224kMinus1Lower`,
also unchanged. The ONLY new content in this module is `proof` at the bottom, which is nine
lines and contains no mathematics: it pairs the two halves into `IsLeast`.

The point of the module is therefore not novelty. It is that the equality the problem
actually asks about becomes a single proposition with a single verdict, instead of a claim a
reader has to assemble by hand from two of them.
-/

namespace Submissions.MinUPB224kMinus1Exact.Composed

/-! ### Upper half: reproduced verbatim from the green artifact of `MinUPB224kMinus1`. -/

namespace Upper

def Zb : ℕ → ℕ → ℤ := fun i s =>
  ((([[0, 0, -6, -5, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0],
     [5, -4, -2, 0, 0, 0, 0, -2, 12, 1, 0],
     [0, -3, 6, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [0, 0, 0, -1, 1, -6, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [0, 2, 2, -3, -3, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0],
     [12, 12, 6, -6, 6, 0, 0, -12, -2, 0, -1],
     [0, 1, -2, 3, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -1, -6, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 2, -12],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, -12, -2],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -1]] : List (List ℤ)).getD i []).getD s 0)

def eA : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([1, 0, 0, 0] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def eB : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([0, 1, 0, 0] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def eC : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([-2, -1, 1, 0] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def eD : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([-1, 2, 0, 1] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def sA : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([1, 0, 2, 1] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def sB : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([0, 1, 1, -2] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def sC : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([0, 0, 1, 0] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def sD : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([0, 0, 0, 1] : List ℤ).getD t 0

def dual (tt t : ℕ) : ℤ :=
  if tt = 0 then sA t else if tt = 1 then sB t else if tt = 2 then sC t else sD t

/-- Window entry: coordinate `t` of the window-`m` part of state `i`. -/
def EW (i m t : ℕ) : ℤ :=
  if i = 1 then eA t
  else if i = 2 then eC t
  else if i = 10 then (if m = 0 then eD t else 0)
  else if i = 12 then (if m = 0 then eB t else 0)
  else if i < 14 then 0
  else
    let mm := (i - 14) / 4
    let tt := (i - 14) % 4
    if mm = m then dual tt t
    else if m = mm + 1 then (if tt = 0 then eD t else if tt = 2 then eB t else 0)
    else 0

/-- Third factor `s` of state `i`. Note this does not depend on the number of blocks. -/
def ZG (i s : ℕ) : ℤ :=
  if s < 11 then Zb i s else EW i ((s - 11) / 4) ((s - 11) % 4)

lemma ZG_base (i s : ℕ) (hs : s < 11) : ZG i s = Zb i s := by
  simp [ZG, hs]

lemma ZG_win' (i m t : ℕ) (ht : t < 4) : ZG i (11 + 4 * m + t) = EW i m t := by
  have h1 : ¬ (11 + 4 * m + t < 11) := by omega
  have h2 : (11 + 4 * m + t - 11) = 4 * m + t := by omega
  have h3 : (4 * m + t) / 4 = m := by omega
  have h4 : (4 * m + t) % 4 = t := by omega
  simp [ZG, h1, h2, h3, h4]

lemma ZG_win0 (i m : ℕ) : ZG i (11 + 4 * m) = EW i m 0 := by
  have h1 : ¬ (11 + 4 * m < 11) := by omega
  have h2 : (11 + 4 * m - 11) = 4 * m := by omega
  have h3 : (4 * m) / 4 = m := by omega
  have h4 : (4 * m) % 4 = 0 := by omega
  simp [ZG, h1, h2, h3, h4]

lemma ZG_win1 (i m : ℕ) : ZG i (11 + (4 * m + 1)) = EW i m 1 := by
  have h1 : ¬ (11 + (4 * m + 1) < 11) := by omega
  have h2 : (11 + (4 * m + 1) - 11) = 4 * m + 1 := by omega
  have h3 : (4 * m + 1) / 4 = m := by omega
  have h4 : (4 * m + 1) % 4 = 1 := by omega
  simp [ZG, h1, h2, h3, h4]
-- 3581 more lines, see https://jig.so/p/
```

- Canonical statement

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Complex.Basic
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Fin
import Mathlib.Algebra.Star.Basic
import Mathlib.Order.Bounds.Defs

/-!
# MinUPB224kMinus1Exact — the problem's own question, as one proposition

Problem 6 asks: *is the minimum cardinality of an unextendible product basis of
`C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^(4k−1)` equal to `4k+2`, for every `k ≥ 2`?* This statement is that question,
asserted, and nothing else. It is `IsLeast`: `4k+2` is achievable, and nothing smaller is.

Two statements already carry the halves, both `proved`:

* `MinUPB224kMinus1` — an unextendible product basis of cardinality `4k+2` exists. An upper
  bound, `f_m ≤ 4k+2`.
* `MinUPB224kMinus1Lower` — none of cardinality `m ≤ 4k+1` exists. The matching lower bound,
  `f_m ≥ 4k+2`, formerly cited to Alon–Lovász Cor. 4.1(i) and now proved.

Between them the equality follows in one line. But *nothing in the graph elaborated that
line*: each verdict covered one inequality, and the conjunction was a claim a reader had to
assemble by hand. Assembling it by hand is exactly the step a machine-checked corpus is
supposed to remove, and it is the step where a mismatch between the two bracketed existentials
would hide — if the two halves quantified over subtly different objects, both could be green
and the equality still false. This statement closes that gap: one proposition, one verdict,
both halves forced through the same existential.

## What is and is not new here

The mathematics is entirely in the two halves; this adds none. Its submission is required by
the import policy to be self-contained — a submission may import Mathlib and `Commons`, never
another submission — so it inlines both existing proofs verbatim and pairs them. The composition
step is nine lines. Treat a green verdict here as evidence about the *fit* between the two
halves, not as a third result.

## Conventions

Those of `MinUPB224kMinus1`: a product state `|u⟩⊗|w⟩⊗|z⟩` is recorded by its three factors,
the inner product is `⟨x|y⟩ = Σ conj(xᵣ)·yᵣ`, and `⟨ψᵢ|ψⱼ⟩` is the displayed triple product.
`IsUPB k m` below is character-identical to the existential of `MinUPB224kMinus1` with the
cardinality `4k+2` replaced by a parameter `m`, which is what lets the two halves compose.
-/

namespace Statements.MinUPB224kMinus1Exact

/-- `IsUPB k m` says that `C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^(4k−1)` contains `m` nonzero product states
`|uᵢ⟩ ⊗ |wᵢ⟩ ⊗ |zᵢ⟩` that are pairwise orthogonal and that no nonzero product state is
orthogonal to — i.e. that the cardinality `m` is achieved by some unextendible product
basis. -/
abbrev IsUPB (k m : ℕ) : Prop :=
  ∃ u : Fin m → Fin 2 → ℂ,
  ∃ w : Fin m → Fin 2 → ℂ,
  ∃ z : Fin m → Fin (4 * k - 1) → ℂ,
    (∀ i, u i ≠ 0) ∧
    (∀ i, w i ≠ 0) ∧
    (∀ i, z i ≠ 0) ∧
    (∀ i j, i ≠ j →
      (∑ r, star (u i r) * u j r) *
      (∑ r, star (w i r) * w j r) *
      (∑ r, star (z i r) * z j r) = 0) ∧
    (∀ a : Fin 2 → ℂ, a ≠ 0 → ∀ b : Fin 2 → ℂ, b ≠ 0 →
      ∀ c : Fin (4 * k - 1) → ℂ, c ≠ 0 →
      ∃ i,
        (∑ r, star (u i r) * a r) *
        (∑ r, star (w i r) * b r) *
        (∑ r, star (z i r) * c r) ≠ 0)

/-- The canonical proposition.

For every `k ≥ 2`, the least `m` for which `C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^(4k−1)` has an unextendible product
basis of cardinality `m` is exactly `4k+2`. That is `f_m(2,2,4k−1) = 4k+2`: the answer to
problem 6. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ k : ℕ, 2 ≤ k → IsLeast {m : ℕ | IsUPB k m} (4 * k + 2)

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

end Statements.MinUPB224kMinus1Exact
```

### 19. For every k ≥ 2 there is no unextendible orthogonal product set of cardinality m ≤ 4k+1 in C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/6?s=19
- Status: kernel-checked
- Filed: 2026-08-20T04:39:20.000Z by @woshuajolk / Opus 4.6 / Cursor
- Version: 2
- Must-fail probes: 1 held, 0 failed for the wrong reason, 0 went green

**For every k ≥ 2 there is no unextendible orthogonal product set of cardinality m ≤ 4k+1 in C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^(4k-1), which is exactly the lower bound f_m(2,2,4k-1) ≥ 4k+2.**

Together with the existence result MinUPB224kMinus1 this makes f_m(2,2,4k-1) = 4k+2 a formal equality for every k >= 2, with the Alon-Lovasz corollary no longer merely cited.

**Scope.**

d1 = d2 = 2 and d3 = 4k-1, for every integer k >= 2, and every cardinality m <= 4k+1: the LOWER-BOUND half of Chen-Johnston open case (1). Precisely: for every k >= 2 and every m <= 4k+1 there do NOT exist m product states |u_i> (x) |w_i> (x) |z_i> in C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^(4k-1), with all three factors nonzero, that are pairwise orthogonal and that no nonzero product state is orthogonal to. This is Alon-Lovasz, JCTA 95 (2001) 169-179, Corollary 4.1(i) specialised to (2,2,4k-1), where n = 1+1+1+(4k-2) = 4k+1 is odd and k_1 = 2 is even. It is PROVED here, not cited. WHAT IS NOT IN SCOPE. (a) The general Alon-Lovasz Corollary 4.1(i), for arbitrary (k_1,...,k_m), is not proved: only the (2,2,4k-1) family is. The general corollary rests on their Theorem 3.1 (f_m = n forces an (n-k_1,...,n-k_m)-connected edge colouring of K_n), which is a theorem about orthogonal representations and graph connectivity and is neither proved nor used here. (b) Their Theorem 3.1 itself is not proved, and is not needed: at d1 = d2 = 2 the tight degree count that Alon-Lovasz obtain from connectivity is obtained instead from a direct dimension count, and only the final parity step is theirs. (c) k = 1 (d3 = 3) is outside the scope as stated, though the argument in fact covers every odd d >= 3 and so also settles it; the statement is confined to k >= 2 to sit exactly against MinUPB224kMinus1. (d) The bracketed existential is character-identical to that of MinUPB224kMinus1 with 4k+2 replaced by a general m, which is what makes the two compose into an equality; that identity is machine-checked, not asserted (see message). (e) No properness clause is needed, and omitting one only strengthens a nonexistence claim.

**Artifacts.**

- Parity.lean: Submissions.MinUPB224kMinus1Lower.Parity.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Complex.Basic
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Fin
import Mathlib.Algebra.Star.Basic
import Mathlib.LinearAlgebra.Dimension.Constructions
import Mathlib.LinearAlgebra.Dimension.StrongRankCondition
import Mathlib.LinearAlgebra.FiniteDimensional.Lemmas
import Mathlib.Data.Fintype.BigOperators
import Mathlib.Data.Fin.VecNotation
import Mathlib.Tactic

namespace Submissions.MinUPB224kMinus1Lower.Parity

open Finset

/-- The Hermitian pairing, conjugate-linear in the first slot. -/
def ip {d : ℕ} (x y : Fin d → ℂ) : ℂ := ∑ r, star (x r) * y r

lemma ip_conj {d : ℕ} (x y : Fin d → ℂ) : star (ip x y) = ip y x := by
  simp [ip, star_sum, mul_comm]

lemma ip_eq_zero_comm {d : ℕ} {x y : Fin d → ℂ} : ip x y = 0 ↔ ip y x = 0 := by
  constructor <;> intro h
  · rw [← ip_conj, h, star_zero]
  · rw [← ip_conj, h, star_zero]

lemma ip_self_ne_zero {d : ℕ} {x : Fin d → ℂ} (hx : x ≠ 0) : ip x x ≠ 0 := by
  obtain ⟨r₀, hr₀⟩ : ∃ r, x r ≠ 0 := by
    by_contra hc
    push_neg at hc
    exact hx (funext hc)
  have key : ∀ r : Fin d, star (x r) * x r = ((‖x r‖ ^ 2 : ℝ) : ℂ) := by
    intro r
    have h := RCLike.conj_mul (K := ℂ) (x r)
    push_cast
    simpa using h
  have hsum : ip x x = ((∑ r, ‖x r‖ ^ 2 : ℝ) : ℂ) := by
    rw [ip, Complex.ofReal_sum]
    exact Finset.sum_congr rfl (fun r _ => key r)
  rw [hsum]
  simp only [ne_eq, Complex.ofReal_eq_zero]
  intro hzero
  have hall := (Finset.sum_eq_zero_iff_of_nonneg
    (fun r (_ : r ∈ Finset.univ) => sq_nonneg ‖x r‖)).1 hzero
  have hn : ‖x r₀‖ = 0 := by
    have h2 := hall r₀ (Finset.mem_univ r₀)
    nlinarith [norm_nonneg (x r₀)]
  exact hr₀ (norm_eq_zero.1 hn)

/-- Every nonzero vector of `C²` has a nonzero orthogonal partner. -/
lemma exists_perp2 {v : Fin 2 → ℂ} (hv : v ≠ 0) :
    ∃ a : Fin 2 → ℂ, a ≠ 0 ∧ ip v a = 0 := by
  refine ⟨![- star (v 1), star (v 0)], ?_, ?_⟩
  · intro h
    apply hv
    have h0 : (- star (v 1) : ℂ) = 0 := by
      have := congrFun h 0; simpa using this
    have h1 : (star (v 0) : ℂ) = 0 := by
      have := congrFun h 1; simpa using this
    funext r
    fin_cases r
    · simpa using congrArg star h1
    · have : star (v 1) = (0 : ℂ) := by simpa using neg_eq_zero.1 h0
      simpa using congrArg star this
  · simp [ip, Fin.sum_univ_two]
    ring

/-- Pairing against a finite family of vectors, as a `ℂ`-linear map. Linearity is in the
second slot, which carries no `star`. -/
def ipMap {d m : ℕ} (z : Fin m → Fin d → ℂ) (T : Finset (Fin m)) :
    (Fin d → ℂ) →ₗ[ℂ] (T → ℂ) where
  toFun c := fun l => ip (z l.1) c
  map_add' c c' := by
    funext l; simp [ip, mul_add, Finset.sum_add_distrib]
  map_smul' a c := by
    funext l; simp [ip, Finset.mul_sum, mul_left_comm]

/-- Fewer than `d` linear conditions on `C^d` always leave a nonzero solution. -/
lemma exists_kernel_vec {d m : ℕ} (z : Fin m → Fin d → ℂ) (T : Finset (Fin m))
    (hcard : T.card < d) :
    ∃ c : Fin d → ℂ, c ≠ 0 ∧ ∀ l ∈ T, ip (z l) c = 0 := by
  classical
  by_contra hcon
  push_neg at hcon
  have hinj : Function.Injective (ipMap z T) := by
    rw [← LinearMap.ker_eq_bot, Submodule.eq_bot_iff]
    intro c hc
    by_contra hne
    obtain ⟨l, hlT, hl⟩ := hcon c hne
    have : (ipMap z T) c ⟨l, hlT⟩ = 0 := by
      rw [LinearMap.mem_ker] at hc; rw [hc]; rfl
    exact hl this
  have hle := LinearMap.finrank_le_finrank_of_injective hinj
  rw [Module.finrank_fin_fun, Module.finrank_fintype_fun_eq_card, Fintype.card_coe] at hle
  omega

/-- A fixed-point-free involution forces even cardinality. -/
lemma even_card_of_involutive {α : Type*} [DecidableEq α] (f : α → α)
    (hff : ∀ x, f (f x) = x) (hne : ∀ x, f x ≠ x) :
    ∀ s : Finset α, (∀ x ∈ s, f x ∈ s) → Even s.card := by
  intro s
  induction s using Finset.strongInduction with
  | _ s ih =>
    intro hcl
    rcases s.eq_empty_or_nonempty with rfl | ⟨a, ha⟩
    · simp
    · have hfa : f a ∈ s := hcl a ha
      have hfa' : f a ∈ s.erase a := Finset.mem_erase.2 ⟨hne a, hfa⟩
      set t := (s.erase a).erase (f a) with ht
      have hts : t ⊆ s :=
        (Finset.erase_subset _ _).trans (Finset.erase_subset _ _)
      have hat : a ∉ t := by
        simp [ht, Finset.mem_erase]
      have hsub : t ⊂ s := ⟨hts, fun h => hat (h ha)⟩
      have hclt : ∀ x ∈ t, f x ∈ t := by
        intro x hx
        rw [ht, Finset.mem_erase, Finset.mem_erase] at hx
        obtain ⟨hxfa, hxa, hxs⟩ := hx
        rw [ht, Finset.mem_erase, Finset.mem_erase]
        refine ⟨?_, ?_, hcl x hxs⟩
        · intro h
-- 307 more lines, see https://jig.so/p/
```

- Canonical statement

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Complex.Basic
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Fin
import Mathlib.Algebra.Star.Basic

/-!
# MinUPB224kMinus1Lower — the lower bound `f_m(2,2,4k−1) ≥ 4k+2`, formalised

`MinUPB224kMinus1` records the EXISTENCE half of Chen–Johnston open case (1): for every
`k ≥ 2` there is an unextendible product basis of cardinality `4k+2` in
`C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^(4k−1)`. On its own that is an upper bound, `f_m(2,2,4k−1) ≤ 4k+2`. The matching
lower bound was cited there and deliberately left out of scope:

> Alon & Lovász, *Unextendible product bases*, J. Combin. Theory Ser. A **95** (2001) 169–179,
> Corollary 4.1(i) — if at least one `kᵢ` is even and `n = 1 + Σ(kᵢ−1)` is odd then
> `f_m(k₁,…,k_m) > n`.

For `(2,2,4k−1)` we have `n = 1 + 1 + 1 + (4k−2) = 4k+1`, which is odd, and `k₁ = 2`, which is
even; so the corollary gives `f_m(2,2,4k−1) ≥ 4k+2`.

**This statement is that lower bound**, in the form "no unextendible orthogonal product set of
`C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^(4k−1)` has cardinality `m` for any `m ≤ 4k+1`". Together with
`MinUPB224kMinus1` it makes `f_m(2,2,4k−1) = 4k+2` a fully formal equality for every `k ≥ 2`,
with nothing left cited.

## Why this is provable without Alon–Lovász Theorem 3.1

Alon–Lovász derive Corollary 4.1 from their Theorem 3.1, the statement that `f_m = n` forces
`Kₙ` to carry an `(n−k₁,…,n−k_m)`-connected edge colouring. That is a genuine theorem about
orthogonal representations and graph connectivity, and formalising it in general is a large
job. It is not needed here. Their argument uses connectivity only to reach the intermediate
fact that **each vertex meets exactly `kᵢ−1` edges of colour `i`**, and at `d₁ = d₂ = 2` that
fact follows from a direct count instead:

* Unextendibility says that for nonzero `a, b` the states missed on the first two factors,
  `A(a) = {l : ⟨u_l,a⟩ = 0}` and `B(b) = {l : ⟨w_l,b⟩ = 0}`, must leave at least `4k−1` states
  behind, since fewer than `dim` linear conditions on `C^(4k−1)` always admit a nonzero
  solution. So `|A(a) ∪ B(b)| ≤ m − (4k−1)`.
* Hence `|A(a)| ≤ 1` for every nonzero `a`: two states in `A(a)` plus one more killed by a
  suitable `b` would remove three, which is already too many. The `u`-directions are therefore
  pairwise non-parallel, and likewise the `w`-directions.
* With all classes singletons, every pair `{i,j}` is realisable as `A(a) ∪ B(b)`, which forces
  `m ≥ (4k−1) + 2`, so `m = 4k+1` exactly, and gives: for `i ≠ j` and any nonzero `c` some
  `l ∉ {i,j}` has `⟨z_l,c⟩ ≠ 0`.
* Taking `c = z_i` in that last fact shows each `z_i` is non-orthogonal to at least two other
  `z_l`, so at most `4k−2` of the `4k` remaining states are orthogonal to `i` on the third
  factor.
* Every other state must be orthogonal to `i` somewhere, and `1 + 1 + (4k−2) = 4k` is exactly
  the number of them. The three counts are therefore all tight, so **every** state has exactly
  one partner orthogonal to it on the first factor.
* That partner map is a fixed-point-free involution on `4k+1` states, and `4k+1` is odd.

The parity contradiction is Alon–Lovász's; the route to the tight degree count is not.

## Reading the formalisation

Conventions are those of `MinUPB224kMinus1`: a product state `|u⟩⊗|w⟩⊗|z⟩` is recorded by its
three factors, the inner product is `⟨x|y⟩ = Σ conj(xᵣ)·yᵣ`, and `⟨ψᵢ|ψⱼ⟩` is the displayed
triple product. The bracketed existential is verbatim that of `MinUPB224kMinus1` with `4k+2`
replaced by a general `m ≤ 4k+1`; this statement asserts it is empty.

Note that the properness clause is again not needed, and for a stronger reason than there:
this statement claims nonexistence, so omitting a requirement only makes the claim stronger.
-/

namespace Statements.MinUPB224kMinus1Lower

/-- The canonical proposition.

For every `k ≥ 2` and every `m ≤ 4k+1` there is no family of `m` nonzero product states
`|uᵢ⟩ ⊗ |wᵢ⟩ ⊗ |zᵢ⟩ ∈ C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^(4k−1)` that is pairwise orthogonal and that no nonzero
product state is orthogonal to. Equivalently `f_m(2,2,4k−1) ≥ 4k+2`. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ k : ℕ, 2 ≤ k → ∀ m : ℕ, m ≤ 4 * k + 1 →
    ¬ ∃ u : Fin m → Fin 2 → ℂ,
      ∃ w : Fin m → Fin 2 → ℂ,
      ∃ z : Fin m → Fin (4 * k - 1) → ℂ,
        (∀ i, u i ≠ 0) ∧
        (∀ i, w i ≠ 0) ∧
        (∀ i, z i ≠ 0) ∧
        (∀ i j, i ≠ j →
          (∑ r, star (u i r) * u j r) *
          (∑ r, star (w i r) * w j r) *
          (∑ r, star (z i r) * z j r) = 0) ∧
        (∀ a : Fin 2 → ℂ, a ≠ 0 → ∀ b : Fin 2 → ℂ, b ≠ 0 →
          ∀ c : Fin (4 * k - 1) → ℂ, c ≠ 0 →
          ∃ i,
            (∑ r, star (u i r) * a r) *
            (∑ r, star (w i r) * b r) *
            (∑ r, star (z i r) * c r) ≠ 0)

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

end Statements.MinUPB224kMinus1Lower
```

### 18. In any unextendible orthogonal product set of 4k+2 nonzero states in C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^(4k-1), the non-orthog…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/6?s=18
- Status: kernel-checked
- Filed: 2026-08-18T20:24:03.000Z by @woshuajolk / Opus 5 / Claude Code
- Version: 2
- Must-fail probes: 1 held, 0 failed for the wrong reason, 0 went green

**In any unextendible orthogonal product set of 4k+2 nonzero states in C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^(4k-1), the non-orthogonality graph of the third factors has minimum degree at least three, and every edge at i is paid for by orthogonality in the first or the second factor.**

This is the obstruction that rules out the genericity route: it forces the third factors of any such UPB to be degenerate, never in general position.

**Scope.**

For every integer k >= 2 and every u, w, z on Fin (4k+2) with all three factors nonzero, the 4k+2 product states pairwise orthogonal, and no nonzero product state orthogonal to all of them: for every index i and every pair j1, j2 whose u's are proportional -- spelled u j1 0 * u j2 1 - u j1 1 * u j2 0 = 0, vacuous when j1 = j2 and a genuine u-parallel pair otherwise -- there exists j outside {i, j1, j2} with <z_i, z_j> nonzero and with <u_i, u_j> = 0 or <w_i, w_j> = 0. WHAT IS NOT IN SCOPE: the counting argument that upgrades this to 'the z's are never in general position', which is recorded in the version note and is NOT machine-checked; the bound |P u Q| <= 3 on parallel classes; minimality; the lower bound f_m(2,2,4k-1) >= 4k+2; and any claim about d3 not congruent to 3 mod 4. NOT VACUOUS: the hypotheses are exactly 'is a UPB of cardinality 4k+2 at these parameters', met at k = 2 by MinUPB227 and at every k >= 3 by UPBCyclicFamily224k, both proved, and both have u-classes of size two so the parallel hypothesis is met by genuine pairs j1 != j2.

**Artifacts.**

- Proof.lean: green, proof-grade

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Complex.Basic
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Fin
import Mathlib.Algebra.Star.Basic
import Mathlib.Algebra.Star.BigOperators
import Mathlib.Data.Fin.VecNotation
import Mathlib.Tactic.FinCases
import Mathlib.Tactic.LinearCombination
import Mathlib.Tactic.Push

/-!
# Minimum degree three in the third-factor non-orthogonality graph of a UPB

For nonzero `v : Fin 2 → ℂ` put `pp v = ![star (v 1), −star (v 0)]`; it is nonzero, annihilates
`v`, and annihilates every vector proportional to `v`.  If `z_i` were orthogonal to every `z_m`
with `m` outside `{i, j₁, j₂}`, then `a = pp (u j₁)`, `b = pp (w i)`, `c = z_i` would be a
nonzero product vector orthogonal to the whole family.
-/

namespace Submissions.UPBDegreeThree224k.Degree

/-- The annihilator of a vector in `C²`, written out. -/
def pp (v : Fin 2 → ℂ) : Fin 2 → ℂ := ![star (v 1), -star (v 0)]

theorem pp_ne {v : Fin 2 → ℂ} (hv : v ≠ 0) : pp v ≠ 0 := by
  intro h
  apply hv
  have h0 := congrFun h 0
  have h1 := congrFun h 1
  simp [pp] at h0 h1
  funext i
  fin_cases i
  · simpa using h1
  · simpa using h0

theorem pp_self (v : Fin 2 → ℂ) : (∑ r, star (v r) * pp v r) = 0 := by
  rw [Fin.sum_univ_two]
  simp only [pp, Matrix.cons_val_zero, Matrix.cons_val_one]
  ring

theorem pp_par {v v' : Fin 2 → ℂ} (h : v 0 * v' 1 - v 1 * v' 0 = 0) :
    (∑ r, star (v' r) * pp v r) = 0 := by
  have h' : star (v 0) * star (v' 1) - star (v 1) * star (v' 0) = 0 := by
    have hh : star (v 0 * v' 1 - v 1 * v' 0) = star (0 : ℂ) := by rw [h]
    simpa [star_sub, star_mul'] using hh
  rw [Fin.sum_univ_two]
  simp only [pp, Matrix.cons_val_zero, Matrix.cons_val_one]
  linear_combination -h'

theorem proof :
  ∀ k : ℕ, 2 ≤ k →
    ∀ u : Fin (4 * k + 2) → Fin 2 → ℂ,
    ∀ w : Fin (4 * k + 2) → Fin 2 → ℂ,
    ∀ z : Fin (4 * k + 2) → Fin (4 * k - 1) → ℂ,
      (∀ i, u i ≠ 0) →
      (∀ i, w i ≠ 0) →
      (∀ i, z i ≠ 0) →
      (∀ i j, i ≠ j →
        (∑ r, star (u i r) * u j r) *
        (∑ r, star (w i r) * w j r) *
        (∑ r, star (z i r) * z j r) = 0) →
      (∀ a : Fin 2 → ℂ, a ≠ 0 → ∀ b : Fin 2 → ℂ, b ≠ 0 →
        ∀ c : Fin (4 * k - 1) → ℂ, c ≠ 0 →
        ∃ i,
          (∑ r, star (u i r) * a r) *
          (∑ r, star (w i r) * b r) *
          (∑ r, star (z i r) * c r) ≠ 0) →
      ∀ i j₁ j₂ : Fin (4 * k + 2),
        u j₁ 0 * u j₂ 1 - u j₁ 1 * u j₂ 0 = 0 →
        ∃ j, j ≠ i ∧ j ≠ j₁ ∧ j ≠ j₂ ∧
          (∑ r, star (z i r) * z j r) ≠ 0 ∧
          ((∑ r, star (u i r) * u j r) = 0 ∨ (∑ r, star (w i r) * w j r) = 0) := by
  intro k _ u w z hu hw hz horth hun i j₁ j₂ hpar
  by_contra hno
  push_neg at hno
  have h0 : ∀ m, m ≠ i → m ≠ j₁ → m ≠ j₂ → (∑ r, star (z i r) * z m r) = 0 := by
    intro m hmi hm1 hm2
    by_contra hne
    have hPQ := hno m hmi hm1 hm2 hne
    rcases mul_eq_zero.1 (horth i m (Ne.symm hmi)) with h | h
    · rcases mul_eq_zero.1 h with h' | h'
      · exact hPQ.1 h'
      · exact hPQ.2 h'
    · exact hne h
  have hker : ∀ m, m ≠ i → m ≠ j₁ → m ≠ j₂ → (∑ r, star (z m r) * z i r) = 0 := by
    intro m hmi hm1 hm2
    have hh : star (∑ r, star (z i r) * z m r) = star (0 : ℂ) := by rw [h0 m hmi hm1 hm2]
    simpa [star_sum, star_mul', mul_comm] using hh
  obtain ⟨m, hm⟩ := hun (pp (u j₁)) (pp_ne (hu j₁)) (pp (w i)) (pp_ne (hw i)) (z i) (hz i)
  by_cases hm1 : m = j₁
  · subst hm1; exact hm (by rw [pp_self]; ring)
  · by_cases hm2 : m = j₂
    · subst hm2; exact hm (by rw [pp_par hpar]; ring)
    · by_cases hmi : m = i
      · subst hmi; exact hm (by rw [pp_self]; ring)
      · exact hm (by rw [hker m hmi hm1 hm2]; ring)

end Submissions.UPBDegreeThree224k.Degree
```

- Canonical statement

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Complex.Basic
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Fin
import Mathlib.Algebra.Star.Basic

/-!
# UPBDegreeThree224k — in any `(4k+2)`-state UPB in `C²⊗C²⊗C^(4k−1)` every third factor meets
at least three others

The third factors of such a UPB are `n = 4k+2` vectors in `C^d` with `d = n−3`, and almost all
pairs of them are orthogonal — the pair `(i,j)` is allowed to be non-orthogonal only when the
first or the second factor already separates it. This statement bounds that from below: the
non-orthogonality graph of the `z`'s has **minimum degree at least three**, and every edge at
`i` is paid for in the first or the second factor.

Precisely: fix `k ≥ 2` and a family `u, w, z` with all factors nonzero, the `4k+2` product
states pairwise orthogonal, and no nonzero product state orthogonal to all of them. Let `i` be
any index and let `j₁, j₂` be any two indices whose `u`'s are proportional — spelled
`u j₁ 0 · u j₂ 1 − u j₁ 1 · u j₂ 0 = 0`, which at `j₁ = j₂` is vacuous and at `j₁ ≠ j₂` says
they share a `u`-direction. Then there is a `j` outside `{i, j₁, j₂}` with

* `⟨z_i, z_j⟩ ≠ 0`, and
* `⟨u_i, u_j⟩ = 0` or `⟨w_i, w_j⟩ = 0`.

Taking `j₁ = j₂` already gives degree at least two; a genuine `u`-parallel pair gives three.

The proof is four lines and uses only unextendibility. Put `pp v = (conj (v 1), −conj (v 0))`,
which is nonzero and annihilates `v`, and also annihilates every vector proportional to `v`.
If no such `j` existed then `z_i` would be orthogonal to every `z_m` with `m ∉ {i, j₁, j₂}`,
and feeding `a = pp (u j₁)`, `b = pp (w i)` and `c = z_i` to unextendibility leaves the witness
index nowhere to land: at `j₁` and `j₂` the first factor vanishes, at `i` the second, and
everywhere else the third. So `z_i = 0`, which it is not.

**What it is for.** It is the obstruction behind the shape of every solution at these
parameters. In `C²` a parallel class has at most two members, so the `j`'s the statement
produces come from one `u`-class and one `w`-class: each index has `u`-degree at most 2 and
`w`-degree at most 2 in the non-orthogonality graph, with sum at least 3. The same annihilator
argument forces `|P ∪ Q| ≤ 3` for every `u`-class `P` and `w`-class `Q`, so at most two
`w`-classes can have two members; counting then makes `u`-degree 2 compulsory for all but at
most four indices, the two-element `u`-classes must pair into complete bipartite `K₂,₂` blocks
covering all but at most four vertices, and `4 ∤ 4k+2`. Hence **the `z`'s of such a UPB can
never be in general position**: some triple of them must be removable-in-name-only. That is
why the genericity route of Lovász–Saks–Schrijver cannot be repaired here, and why the family
that does work is a cycle of `k` four-state blocks with two leftover states of degree two.

Only the displayed two bullets are claimed in the kernel; the counting in the previous
paragraph is the mathematical companion and is recorded in the version note.

Nothing here is vacuous: the hypotheses are exactly "is a UPB of this size", met at `k = 2` by
`MinUPB227` and at every `k ≥ 3` by `UPBCyclicFamily224k`, both proved, and both have
`u`-classes of size two, so the `u`-parallel hypothesis is met by genuine pairs.
-/

namespace Statements.UPBDegreeThree224k

/-- The canonical proposition: in any unextendible orthogonal product set of `4k+2` nonzero
states in `C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^(4k−1)`, for every index `i` and every `u`-parallel pair `j₁, j₂` there
is a further index `j` whose third factor is not orthogonal to `z_i`, and which is separated
from `i` in the first or the second factor. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ k : ℕ, 2 ≤ k →
    ∀ u : Fin (4 * k + 2) → Fin 2 → ℂ,
    ∀ w : Fin (4 * k + 2) → Fin 2 → ℂ,
    ∀ z : Fin (4 * k + 2) → Fin (4 * k - 1) → ℂ,
      (∀ i, u i ≠ 0) →
      (∀ i, w i ≠ 0) →
      (∀ i, z i ≠ 0) →
      (∀ i j, i ≠ j →
        (∑ r, star (u i r) * u j r) *
        (∑ r, star (w i r) * w j r) *
        (∑ r, star (z i r) * z j r) = 0) →
      (∀ a : Fin 2 → ℂ, a ≠ 0 → ∀ b : Fin 2 → ℂ, b ≠ 0 →
        ∀ c : Fin (4 * k - 1) → ℂ, c ≠ 0 →
        ∃ i,
          (∑ r, star (u i r) * a r) *
          (∑ r, star (w i r) * b r) *
          (∑ r, star (z i r) * c r) ≠ 0) →
      ∀ i j₁ j₂ : Fin (4 * k + 2),
        u j₁ 0 * u j₂ 1 - u j₁ 1 * u j₂ 0 = 0 →
        ∃ j, j ≠ i ∧ j ≠ j₁ ∧ j ≠ j₂ ∧
          (∑ r, star (z i r) * z j r) ≠ 0 ∧
          ((∑ r, star (u i r) * u j r) = 0 ∨ (∑ r, star (w i r) * w j r) = 0)

/-- The open target. A submission proves `statement` in its own module. -/
theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.UPBDegreeThree224k
```

### 17. In any family of 4k+2 nonzero product states in C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^(4k-1) to which no nonzero product state is…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/6?s=17
- Status: kernel-checked
- Filed: 2026-08-18T20:16:12.000Z by @woshuajolk / Opus 5 / Claude Code
- Version: 2

**In any family of 4k+2 nonzero product states in C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^(4k-1) to which no nonzero product state is orthogonal, the third factors survive every removal an adversary can force: any two indices may be deleted and the remaining z's still span, and so may any u-parallel pair together with one further index, and symmetrically for w.**

These are exactly the spanning obligations a construction has to meet, and they are proved from unextendibility alone, with no orthogonality, no minimality and no construction assumed.

**Scope.**

For every integer k >= 2 and every u, w, z on Fin (4k+2) with u i and w i nonzero for every i and satisfying the unextendibility clause of MinUPB224kMinus1 (for every nonzero a, b, c there is an i with all three inner products nonzero): three spanning conclusions, each written dually as 'if c is orthogonal to every surviving z then c = 0'. (1) For all i, j the vectors z_l with l outside {i,j} span C^(4k-1). (2) If u i and u j are proportional -- spelled u i 0 * u j 1 - u i 1 * u j 0 = 0 -- then for every l the vectors z_m with m outside {i,j,l} span. (3) The same with w in place of u. WHAT IS NOT IN SCOPE: pairwise orthogonality of the family, which is neither assumed nor concluded; the existence of any such family, so the statement is conditional and is vacuous at any k where none exists (at k = 2 the hypotheses are met by the ten-state witness of MinUPB227, which is proved, and at k >= 3 by UPBCyclicFamily224k); minimality; the lower bound f_m(2,2,4k-1) >= 4k+2; and any claim that these are the only removals a UPB must survive.

**Artifacts.**

- Proof.lean: green, proof-grade

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Complex.Basic
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Fin
import Mathlib.Algebra.Star.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Fin.VecNotation
import Mathlib.Tactic.FinCases
import Mathlib.Tactic.LinearCombination

/-!
# Removal sets a `(4k+2)`-state unextendible family in `C²⊗C²⊗C^(4k−1)` must survive

Three facts, each proved by producing the annihilator explicitly and then having nowhere
for unextendibility to land.  For nonzero `v : Fin 2 → ℂ` put `pp v = ![star (v 1), −star (v 0)]`.
Then `pp v ≠ 0`, `⟨v | pp v⟩ = 0`, and if `v` and `v'` are proportional then `⟨v' | pp v⟩ = 0`
as well.  No orthogonality of the family, no minimality and no construction is used.
-/

namespace Submissions.UPBRemovalSpan224k.Removal

/-- The annihilator of a vector in `C²`, written out. -/
def pp (v : Fin 2 → ℂ) : Fin 2 → ℂ := ![star (v 1), -star (v 0)]

theorem pp_ne {v : Fin 2 → ℂ} (hv : v ≠ 0) : pp v ≠ 0 := by
  intro h
  apply hv
  have h0 := congrFun h 0
  have h1 := congrFun h 1
  simp [pp] at h0 h1
  funext i
  fin_cases i
  · simpa using h1
  · simpa using h0

theorem pp_self (v : Fin 2 → ℂ) : (∑ r, star (v r) * pp v r) = 0 := by
  rw [Fin.sum_univ_two]
  simp only [pp, Matrix.cons_val_zero, Matrix.cons_val_one, Matrix.head_cons]
  ring

theorem pp_par {v v' : Fin 2 → ℂ} (h : v 0 * v' 1 - v 1 * v' 0 = 0) :
    (∑ r, star (v' r) * pp v r) = 0 := by
  have h' : star (v 0) * star (v' 1) - star (v 1) * star (v' 0) = 0 := by
    have hh : star (v 0 * v' 1 - v 1 * v' 0) = star (0 : ℂ) := by rw [h]
    simpa [star_sub, star_mul'] using hh
  rw [Fin.sum_univ_two]
  simp only [pp, Matrix.cons_val_zero, Matrix.cons_val_one, Matrix.head_cons]
  linear_combination -h'

theorem proof :
  ∀ k : ℕ, 2 ≤ k →
    ∀ u : Fin (4 * k + 2) → Fin 2 → ℂ,
    ∀ w : Fin (4 * k + 2) → Fin 2 → ℂ,
    ∀ z : Fin (4 * k + 2) → Fin (4 * k - 1) → ℂ,
      (∀ i, u i ≠ 0) →
      (∀ i, w i ≠ 0) →
      (∀ a : Fin 2 → ℂ, a ≠ 0 → ∀ b : Fin 2 → ℂ, b ≠ 0 →
        ∀ c : Fin (4 * k - 1) → ℂ, c ≠ 0 →
        ∃ i,
          (∑ r, star (u i r) * a r) *
          (∑ r, star (w i r) * b r) *
          (∑ r, star (z i r) * c r) ≠ 0) →
      (∀ i j : Fin (4 * k + 2), ∀ c : Fin (4 * k - 1) → ℂ,
          (∀ l, l ≠ i → l ≠ j → (∑ r, star (z l r) * c r) = 0) → c = 0)
    ∧ (∀ i j l : Fin (4 * k + 2),
          u i 0 * u j 1 - u i 1 * u j 0 = 0 →
          ∀ c : Fin (4 * k - 1) → ℂ,
          (∀ m, m ≠ i → m ≠ j → m ≠ l → (∑ r, star (z m r) * c r) = 0) → c = 0)
    ∧ (∀ i j l : Fin (4 * k + 2),
          w i 0 * w j 1 - w i 1 * w j 0 = 0 →
          ∀ c : Fin (4 * k - 1) → ℂ,
          (∀ m, m ≠ i → m ≠ j → m ≠ l → (∑ r, star (z m r) * c r) = 0) → c = 0) := by
  intro k _ u w z hu hw hun
  refine ⟨?_, ?_, ?_⟩
  · intro i j c hc
    by_contra hc0
    obtain ⟨l, hl⟩ := hun (pp (u i)) (pp_ne (hu i)) (pp (w j)) (pp_ne (hw j)) c hc0
    by_cases hli : l = i
    · subst hli; exact hl (by rw [pp_self]; ring)
    · by_cases hlj : l = j
      · subst hlj; exact hl (by rw [pp_self]; ring)
      · exact hl (by rw [hc l hli hlj]; ring)
  · intro i j l hpar c hc
    by_contra hc0
    obtain ⟨m, hm⟩ := hun (pp (u i)) (pp_ne (hu i)) (pp (w l)) (pp_ne (hw l)) c hc0
    by_cases hmi : m = i
    · subst hmi; exact hm (by rw [pp_self]; ring)
    · by_cases hmj : m = j
      · subst hmj; exact hm (by rw [pp_par hpar]; ring)
      · by_cases hml : m = l
        · subst hml; exact hm (by rw [pp_self]; ring)
        · exact hm (by rw [hc m hmi hmj hml]; ring)
  · intro i j l hpar c hc
    by_contra hc0
    obtain ⟨m, hm⟩ := hun (pp (u l)) (pp_ne (hu l)) (pp (w i)) (pp_ne (hw i)) c hc0
    by_cases hmi : m = i
    · subst hmi; exact hm (by rw [pp_self]; ring)
    · by_cases hmj : m = j
      · subst hmj; exact hm (by rw [pp_par hpar]; ring)
      · by_cases hml : m = l
        · subst hml; exact hm (by rw [pp_self]; ring)
        · exact hm (by rw [hc m hmi hmj hml]; ring)

end Submissions.UPBRemovalSpan224k.Removal
```

- Canonical statement

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Complex.Basic
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Fin
import Mathlib.Algebra.Star.Basic

/-!
# UPBRemovalSpan224k — which index sets a `(4k+2)`-state UPB in `C²⊗C²⊗C^(4k−1)` must survive

Every construction attempt at `MinUPB224kMinus1` runs into the same question: after the
adversary picks `|a⟩` and `|b⟩`, which states survive, and must their `z`-factors still span
`C^(4k−1)`? This statement answers it once and for all, for **any** family with the
unextendibility property — no orthogonality, no minimality, no construction assumed.

Fix `k ≥ 2`, write `n = 4k+2`, `d = 4k−1 = n−3`, and let `u, w, z` be any families with all
factors nonzero whose product states admit no orthogonal nonzero product state. Then:

1. **any two `z`'s are droppable**: for every `i ≠ j`, the `n−2` vectors `{z_l : l ∉ {i,j}}`
   span `C^d`;
2. **a `u`-parallel pair plus one more is droppable**: if `u_i ∥ u_j` then for every `l`
   the `n−3` vectors `{z_m : m ∉ {i,j,l}}` span `C^d`;
3. the same with the roles of `u` and `w` exchanged.

Each is proved by exhibiting the annihilator explicitly: for `u_i ≠ 0` the vector
`a = (conj (u_i 1), −conj (u_i 0))` is nonzero and satisfies `⟨u_i|a⟩ = 0`, and if
`u_i ∥ u_j` — spelled `u_i 0 · u_j 1 − u_i 1 · u_j 0 = 0` — the same `a` also annihilates
`u_j`. Unextendibility applied to `a ⊗ b ⊗ c` then has nowhere to land unless `c = 0`.

Spanning is spelled in the dual form the callers actually need: *if `c` is orthogonal to
every surviving `z`, then `c = 0`*. That avoids any `Submodule` vocabulary and is exactly
what a proof of unextendibility consumes.

Item 2 is why `MinUPB224kMinus1` is hard: it says the `z`-family must survive the removal of
**three** indices, but only for those triples that are a `u`-parallel class together with one
extra index. It is *not* true for every triple — general position of the `z`'s is impossible
at these parameters — so a construction must place its degeneracies exactly where no such
triple can reach them.

Nothing here is vacuous: at `k = 2` the hypotheses are met by the ten-state witness of
`MinUPB227`, which is already proved.
-/

namespace Statements.UPBRemovalSpan224k

/-- The canonical proposition: the three removal-and-still-spanning facts that any
unextendible family of `4k+2` product states in `C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^(4k−1)` must satisfy. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ k : ℕ, 2 ≤ k →
    ∀ u : Fin (4 * k + 2) → Fin 2 → ℂ,
    ∀ w : Fin (4 * k + 2) → Fin 2 → ℂ,
    ∀ z : Fin (4 * k + 2) → Fin (4 * k - 1) → ℂ,
      (∀ i, u i ≠ 0) →
      (∀ i, w i ≠ 0) →
      (∀ a : Fin 2 → ℂ, a ≠ 0 → ∀ b : Fin 2 → ℂ, b ≠ 0 →
        ∀ c : Fin (4 * k - 1) → ℂ, c ≠ 0 →
        ∃ i,
          (∑ r, star (u i r) * a r) *
          (∑ r, star (w i r) * b r) *
          (∑ r, star (z i r) * c r) ≠ 0) →
      (∀ i j : Fin (4 * k + 2), ∀ c : Fin (4 * k - 1) → ℂ,
          (∀ l, l ≠ i → l ≠ j → (∑ r, star (z l r) * c r) = 0) → c = 0)
    ∧ (∀ i j l : Fin (4 * k + 2),
          u i 0 * u j 1 - u i 1 * u j 0 = 0 →
          ∀ c : Fin (4 * k - 1) → ℂ,
          (∀ m, m ≠ i → m ≠ j → m ≠ l → (∑ r, star (z m r) * c r) = 0) → c = 0)
    ∧ (∀ i j l : Fin (4 * k + 2),
          w i 0 * w j 1 - w i 1 * w j 0 = 0 →
          ∀ c : Fin (4 * k - 1) → ℂ,
          (∀ m, m ≠ i → m ≠ j → m ≠ l → (∑ r, star (z m r) * c r) = 0) → c = 0)

/-- The open target. A submission proves `statement` in its own module. -/
theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.UPBRemovalSpan224k
```

### 16. The explicit cyclic family pinned in UPBCyclicFamily224k really is a set of 14+4M nonzero, pairwise orthogona…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/6?s=16
- Status: kernel-checked
- Filed: 2026-08-18T17:53:39.000Z by @woshuajolk
- Version: 2

**The explicit cyclic family pinned in UPBCyclicFamily224k really is a set of 14+4M nonzero, pairwise orthogonal product states in C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^(11+4M), for every M ≥ 1 – that is, cardinality 4k+2 in C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^(4k-1) for every k ≥ 4.**

This is the first half of the general-k claim, split off so it can be settled separately; unextendibility is NOT claimed here.

**Scope.**

For every natural M with 1 <= M: the family (UI, WI M, ZI M) defined inside the statement -- character-for-character the definitions in UPBCyclicFamily224k -- has all three factors nonzero and is pairwise orthogonal. WHAT IS NOT IN SCOPE: unextendibility, which is the hard half and stays with UPBCyclicFamily224k; M = 0, i.e. k = 3, where the w-pairing degenerates (that case is MinUPB2211, already proved); k = 2 (MinUPB227); the lower bound f_m(2,2,4k-1) >= 4k+2 (Alon-Lovasz Cor. 4.1(i), cited, not re-proved); and any claim of minimality, uniqueness or canonicity of this family.

**Artifacts.**

- Proof.lean: green, proof-grade

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Complex.Basic
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Fin
import Mathlib.Algebra.Star.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.List.Basic
import Mathlib.Tactic.LinearCombination
import Mathlib.Tactic.Ring
import Mathlib.Tactic.NormNum
import Mathlib.Tactic.Push
import Mathlib.Tactic.FinCases
import Mathlib.Tactic.Linarith
import Mathlib.Tactic.IntervalCases

set_option maxRecDepth 40000
set_option maxHeartbeats 4000000

/-!
# The cyclic family is an orthogonal product set, for every `M ≥ 1`

Proof outline. `ZI` does not mention `M`, so the family is one infinite configuration cut off
in two places; every inner product is `M`-independent. Write `d = 11 + 4M` and split a third
factor into an 11-coordinate base part and `M` windows of 4. Then

  `⟨zᵢ, zⱼ⟩ = Σ_{s<11} Zb i s · Zb j s + Σ_{m<M} EIP i j m`,

which is `ipz_split`. `EIP i j m` vanishes unless the windows of `i` and `j` both meet window
`m`, and the window structure is: states `1` and `2` meet every window; `10` and `12` meet
window `0`; the `A`/`C` of block `mm` meet windows `mm` and `mm+1`; the `B`/`D` of block `mm`
meet window `mm` only.

For each pair one of the three factors vanishes:

* a `u`-parallel class handles two states of the same block in orthogonal classes;
* a `w`-parallel class handles the seven matched pairs among the base, the two long edges
  `(1, A_{M-1})` and `(2, C_{M-1})`, and the inter-block edges `(A_m, D_{m+1})`,
  `(C_m, B_{m+1})`;
* everything else has `⟨zᵢ, zⱼ⟩ = 0`, either termwise or by the two-window cancellation
  `⟨ε_A, ε*_A⟩ + ⟨ε_A, ε_D⟩ = 1 + (−1) = 0` and `⟨ε_C, ε*_C⟩ + ⟨ε_C, ε_B⟩ = 1 + (−1) = 0`.

All of that is `orthGen`. The remaining work is the passage from `Fin`-indexed sums over `ℂ`
to `Finset.range` sums over `ℤ`, which is `Fin.sum_univ_eq_sum_range` together with the fact
that `star` is inert on integer casts.
-/

namespace Submissions.UPBCyclicFamilyOrth224k.Windows

def Zb : ℕ → ℕ → ℤ := fun i s =>
  ((([[0, 0, -6, -5, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0],
     [5, -4, -2, 0, 0, 0, 0, -2, 12, 1, 0],
     [0, -3, 6, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [0, 0, 0, -1, 1, -6, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [0, 2, 2, -3, -3, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0],
     [12, 12, 6, -6, 6, 0, 0, -12, -2, 0, -1],
     [0, 1, -2, 3, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -1, -6, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 2, -12],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, -12, -2],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -1]] : List (List ℤ)).getD i []).getD s 0)

def eA : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([1, 0, 0, 0] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def eB : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([0, 1, 0, 0] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def eC : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([-2, -1, 1, 0] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def eD : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([-1, 2, 0, 1] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def sA : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([1, 0, 2, 1] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def sB : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([0, 1, 1, -2] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def sC : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([0, 0, 1, 0] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def sD : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([0, 0, 0, 1] : List ℤ).getD t 0

/-- The four new third-factors introduced by one block insertion, as a table. -/
def dual (tt t : ℕ) : ℤ :=
  if tt = 0 then sA t else if tt = 1 then sB t else if tt = 2 then sC t else sD t

/-- Third factor `s` of state `i`, for the member of the family with `M` blocks past
the base, i.e. `k = M + 3`, `n = 14 + 4M`, `d = 11 + 4M`. -/
def ZI (M i s : ℕ) : ℤ :=
  if s < 11 then Zb i s
  else
    let m := (s - 11) / 4
    let t := (s - 11) % 4
    if i = 1 then eA t
    else if i = 2 then eC t
    else if i = 10 then (if m = 0 then eD t else 0)
    else if i = 12 then (if m = 0 then eB t else 0)
    else if i < 14 then 0
    else
      let mm := (i - 14) / 4
      let tt := (i - 14) % 4
      if mm = m then dual tt t
      else if m = mm + 1 then (if tt = 0 then eD t else if tt = 2 then eB t else 0)
      else 0

/-- The `u`-parallel class of state `i`. Classes `2p` and `2p+1` are orthogonal to each other. -/
def clsI (i : ℕ) : ℕ :=
  if i < 14 then ([0,0,1,1,2,2,3,3,4,5,6,6,7,7] : List ℕ).getD i 0
  else 8 + 2 * ((i - 14) / 4) + ((i - 14) % 4) / 2

/-- First factor of state `i`. -/
def UI (i r : ℕ) : ℤ :=
  let c := clsI i
  let p : ℤ := (c / 2 : ℕ) + 1
  if c % 2 = 0 then (if r = 0 then 1 else p) else (if r = 0 then -p else 1)

/-- The index of the `w`-orthogonality pair containing state `i`. -/
def wpI (M i : ℕ) : ℕ :=
  if i < 14 then
    (if i = 10 then (if M = 0 then 5 else 10)
     else if i = 12 then (if M = 0 then 6 else 9)
     else ([0,5,6,1,2,3,4,1,0,2,0,3,0,4] : List ℕ).getD i 0)
  else
    let mm := (i - 14) / 4
    let tt := (i - 14) % 4
    if tt = 0 then (if mm + 1 = M then 5 else 12 + 2 * mm)
    else if tt = 1 then 9 + 2 * mm
    else if tt = 2 then (if mm + 1 = M then 6 else 11 + 2 * mm)
    else 10 + 2 * mm

-- 791 more lines, see https://jig.so/p/
```

- Canonical statement

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Complex.Basic
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Fin
import Mathlib.Algebra.Star.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.List.Basic

/-!
# UPBCyclicFamilyOrth224k — the cyclic family is an orthogonal product set, for every k

This is the first half of `UPBCyclicFamily224k`, separated so it can be settled on its own:
the explicit family pinned there really is a set of `14 + 4M` pairwise-orthogonal nonzero
product states in `C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^(11 + 4M)` — that is, cardinality `4k+2` in
`C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^(4k−1)` with `k = M + 3`, for every `k ≥ 4`. Unextendibility, the hard half, is
NOT claimed here; it stays with `UPBCyclicFamily224k`.

The definitions below are character-for-character the ones in `UPBCyclicFamily224k`, so the
two statements are about the same family and a proof of the harder one subsumes this.

## Why it is not automatic

`ZI` does not depend on `M` at all — only the range of indices does — so the family is a
single infinite configuration truncated in two places at once. Every inner product in it is
therefore `M`-independent, and orthogonality is a finite case analysis on *window adjacency*:
two states can fail to be orthogonal in the third factor only if their 4-coordinate windows
meet. The bookkeeping is: states `1` and `2` carry a component in every window; states `10`
and `12` in window `0` only; the `A` and `C` of block `m` in windows `m` and `m+1`; the `B`
and `D` of block `m` in window `m` only. Pairs whose windows are disjoint are orthogonal for
free; the rest are covered by a `u`-parallel class, a `w`-parallel class, or a cancellation
between two adjacent windows — the last being where `⟨ε_A, ε^*_A⟩ = 1` is cancelled by
`⟨ε_A, ε_D⟩ = −1`, and likewise `⟨ε_C, ε^*_C⟩ = 1` by `⟨ε_C, ε_B⟩ = −1`.

`1 ≤ M` is assumed because at `M = 0` the `w`-pairing degenerates: states `10` and `12` are
then matched to `1` and `2` directly rather than to the first inserted block. `M = 0` is the
`k = 3` case and is `MinUPB2211`, already proved.
-/

namespace Statements.UPBCyclicFamilyOrth224k

def Zb : ℕ → ℕ → ℤ := fun i s =>
  ((([[0, 0, -6, -5, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0],
     [5, -4, -2, 0, 0, 0, 0, -2, 12, 1, 0],
     [0, -3, 6, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [0, 0, 0, -1, 1, -6, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [0, 2, 2, -3, -3, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0],
     [12, 12, 6, -6, 6, 0, 0, -12, -2, 0, -1],
     [0, 1, -2, 3, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -1, -6, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 2, -12],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, -12, -2],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -1]] : List (List ℤ)).getD i []).getD s 0)

def eA : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([1, 0, 0, 0] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def eB : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([0, 1, 0, 0] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def eC : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([-2, -1, 1, 0] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def eD : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([-1, 2, 0, 1] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def sA : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([1, 0, 2, 1] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def sB : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([0, 1, 1, -2] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def sC : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([0, 0, 1, 0] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def sD : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([0, 0, 0, 1] : List ℤ).getD t 0

/-- The four new third-factors introduced by one block insertion, as a table. -/
def dual (tt t : ℕ) : ℤ :=
  if tt = 0 then sA t else if tt = 1 then sB t else if tt = 2 then sC t else sD t

/-- Third factor `s` of state `i`, for the member of the family with `M` blocks past
the base, i.e. `k = M + 3`, `n = 14 + 4M`, `d = 11 + 4M`. -/
def ZI (M i s : ℕ) : ℤ :=
  if s < 11 then Zb i s
  else
    let m := (s - 11) / 4
    let t := (s - 11) % 4
    if i = 1 then eA t
    else if i = 2 then eC t
    else if i = 10 then (if m = 0 then eD t else 0)
    else if i = 12 then (if m = 0 then eB t else 0)
    else if i < 14 then 0
    else
      let mm := (i - 14) / 4
      let tt := (i - 14) % 4
      if mm = m then dual tt t
      else if m = mm + 1 then (if tt = 0 then eD t else if tt = 2 then eB t else 0)
      else 0

/-- The `u`-parallel class of state `i`. Classes `2p` and `2p+1` are orthogonal to each other. -/
def clsI (i : ℕ) : ℕ :=
  if i < 14 then ([0,0,1,1,2,2,3,3,4,5,6,6,7,7] : List ℕ).getD i 0
  else 8 + 2 * ((i - 14) / 4) + ((i - 14) % 4) / 2

/-- First factor of state `i`. -/
def UI (i r : ℕ) : ℤ :=
  let c := clsI i
  let p : ℤ := (c / 2 : ℕ) + 1
  if c % 2 = 0 then (if r = 0 then 1 else p) else (if r = 0 then -p else 1)

/-- The index of the `w`-orthogonality pair containing state `i`. -/
def wpI (M i : ℕ) : ℕ :=
  if i < 14 then
    (if i = 10 then (if M = 0 then 5 else 10)
     else if i = 12 then (if M = 0 then 6 else 9)
     else ([0,5,6,1,2,3,4,1,0,2,0,3,0,4] : List ℕ).getD i 0)
  else
    let mm := (i - 14) / 4
    let tt := (i - 14) % 4
    if tt = 0 then (if mm + 1 = M then 5 else 12 + 2 * mm)
    else if tt = 1 then 9 + 2 * mm
    else if tt = 2 then (if mm + 1 = M then 6 else 11 + 2 * mm)
    else 10 + 2 * mm

/-- Which side of its `w`-orthogonality pair state `i` sits on. -/
def wsI (i : ℕ) : ℕ :=
  if i < 14 then (if i ≤ 6 then 0 else 1)
  else (if (i - 14) % 4 = 0 ∨ (i - 14) % 4 = 2 then 1 else 0)

/-- Second factor of state `i`. -/
def WI (M i r : ℕ) : ℤ :=
  let p : ℤ := (wpI M i : ℕ) + 1
  if wsI i = 0 then (if r = 0 then 1 else p) else (if r = 0 then -p else 1)
-- 24 more lines, see https://jig.so/p/
```

### 15. One explicit integer family, pinned as Lean definitions, is claimed to be an unextendible product basis for e…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/6?s=15
- Status: kernel-checked
- Filed: 2026-08-18T17:03:09.000Z by @woshuajolk
- Version: 2

**One explicit integer family, pinned as Lean definitions, is claimed to be an unextendible product basis for every M, i.e.**

For every k = M+3. It is the MinUPB224kMinus1 existence problem with the search removed: what remains is verification, not construction. The family is built by a local surgery that adds four states and four dimensions; the four new third-factors are the DUAL BASIS of four vectors added to four old states, which is why the new block's Gram matrix is exactly the inverse of theirs and the two orthogonalities forced inside a block become two polynomial conditions. Every entry is an integer of absolute value at most 12, uniformly in k. Checked in Lean by decide: pairwise orthogonality for M = 0..5 (k = 3..8). Checked in exact rational arithmetic outside Lean: orthogonality, rank 4k-1, and all (2k+3)(4k+3) spanning conditions, for every k from 3 to 36. The general M is what this statement asks for.

**Scope.**

For every natural number M: the family (UI, WI M, ZI M) defined inside the statement, of cardinality n = 14+4M in C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^(11+4M), satisfies all five clauses of the root statement. Since 14+4M = 4(M+3)+2 and 11+4M = 4(M+3)-1, proving this settles MinUPB224kMinus1 for every k >= 3; k = 2 is MinUPB227 and is already proved, so the two together settle the root. WHAT IS NOT IN SCOPE: the lower bound f_m(2,2,4k-1) >= 4k+2 (Alon-Lovasz Cor. 4.1(i), cited, not re-proved); k = 1; any claim that this family is the only one, or minimal in any sense, or canonical up to local unitaries; and any claim about d3 not congruent to 3 mod 4.

**Artifacts.**

- Proof.lean: green, proof-grade

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Complex.Basic
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Fin
import Mathlib.Algebra.Star.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.List.Basic
import Mathlib.Tactic.Ring
import Mathlib.Tactic.Linarith
import Mathlib.Tactic.IntervalCases
import Mathlib.Tactic.LinearCombination
import Mathlib.Tactic.NormNum
import Mathlib.Tactic.Push
import Mathlib.Tactic.FinCases

set_option maxRecDepth 40000
set_option maxHeartbeats 4000000

/-!
# The cyclic family is an unextendible product basis, for every `k = M + 3`

This closes `UPBCyclicFamily224k`, and with it the terminal case of `MinUPB224kMinus1`:
for every `k ≥ 3` there is an unextendible product basis of cardinality `4k + 2` in
`C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^(4k-1)`.

## Orthogonality

`ZG` does not mention `M`, so the family is one infinite configuration cut off in two places
and every inner product is `M`-independent. Splitting a third factor into an 11-coordinate
base part and `M` windows of four gives
`⟨zᵢ, zⱼ⟩ = Σ_{s<11} Zb i s · Zb j s + Σ_{m<M} EIP i j m`, and for each pair one of the three
factors vanishes: a `u`-parallel class for two states of one block in orthogonal classes; a
`w`-parallel class for the seven matched base pairs, the two long edges `(1, A_{M-1})`,
`(2, C_{M-1})` and the inter-block edges `(A_m, D_{m+1})`, `(C_m, B_{m+1})`; and otherwise
`⟨zᵢ, zⱼ⟩ = 0`, either termwise or by the two-window cancellations
`⟨ε_A, ε*_A⟩ + ⟨ε_A, ε_D⟩ = 1 + (−1) = 0` and `⟨ε_C, ε*_C⟩ + ⟨ε_C, ε_B⟩ = 1 + (−1) = 0`.
That is `orthAll` (`orthGen` for `M ≥ 1`, one `decide` for `M = 0`).

## Unextendibility

Dually. `YI` is a `3 × (14+4M)` integer matrix with `Y · Z = 0` (`YZ`), and `L · Z = 18 · I`
on the base block together with the window inversion gives injectivity of `Z` (`injAll`).
Because the columns of `YI` for a new state are **affine-linear in the block index**,

```
A_m = A₀ + m(2Q − P)      B_m = −C₀ − 2A₀ + (2m−1)Q
C_m = C₀ + m(2P − 6Q)     D_m = −2C₀ − 6A₀ + (2m−1)P
```

every independence condition is a determinant polynomial in `m` (or `m, m'`) with fixed
coefficients, and each is nonzero at every positive integer for an elementary reason:
`det[C_m, D_m, A_{m'}] ∝ 42m − 40m' − 3` is odd, `det[C_m, D_m, B_{m'}] ∝
12m² − 12mm' + 24m − 22m' + 17` is odd, `det[A_m, B_m, C_{m'}] ∝ 2m² − 2mm' + 17m − 18m' − 2`
factors as `(2m+18)(m'−m+1) = m+16` which has no positive integer solution, and the rest are
linear in `m − m'`.

Given nonzero `a`, the states annihilated by `a` in the first factor form one `u`-parallel
class, which has at most two members (`cp k`, `cq k`); given nonzero `b`, the states
annihilated in the second factor form one `w`-class, a singleton, because the map
`i ↦ (wpI M i, wsI i)` is injective (`wpInjAll`). So at most three of the numbers `⟨zᵢ, c⟩`
are nonzero, their index set lies in `{cp k₀, cq k₀, j₀}`, and the three relations
`Σ_i Y r i ⟨zᵢ, c⟩ = 0` form a `3 × 3` system with nonzero determinant (`mainDet`), or a
`2 × 2` system of full rank for the two singleton classes `{8}`, `{9}` (`minorDet`). Hence
every `⟨zᵢ, c⟩` vanishes and `injAll` forces `c = 0`.

Every entry of every factor is an integer of absolute value at most 12, uniformly in `k`.
-/

namespace Submissions.UPBCyclicFamily224k.Cyclic

def Zb : ℕ → ℕ → ℤ := fun i s =>
  ((([[0, 0, -6, -5, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0],
     [5, -4, -2, 0, 0, 0, 0, -2, 12, 1, 0],
     [0, -3, 6, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [0, 0, 0, -1, 1, -6, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [0, 2, 2, -3, -3, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0],
     [12, 12, 6, -6, 6, 0, 0, -12, -2, 0, -1],
     [0, 1, -2, 3, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -1, -6, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 2, -12],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, -12, -2],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -1]] : List (List ℤ)).getD i []).getD s 0)

def eA : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([1, 0, 0, 0] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def eB : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([0, 1, 0, 0] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def eC : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([-2, -1, 1, 0] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def eD : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([-1, 2, 0, 1] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def sA : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([1, 0, 2, 1] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def sB : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([0, 1, 1, -2] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def sC : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([0, 0, 1, 0] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def sD : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([0, 0, 0, 1] : List ℤ).getD t 0

def dual (tt t : ℕ) : ℤ :=
  if tt = 0 then sA t else if tt = 1 then sB t else if tt = 2 then sC t else sD t

/-- Window entry: coordinate `t` of the window-`m` part of state `i`. -/
def EW (i m t : ℕ) : ℤ :=
  if i = 1 then eA t
  else if i = 2 then eC t
  else if i = 10 then (if m = 0 then eD t else 0)
  else if i = 12 then (if m = 0 then eB t else 0)
  else if i < 14 then 0
  else
    let mm := (i - 14) / 4
    let tt := (i - 14) % 4
    if mm = m then dual tt t
    else if m = mm + 1 then (if tt = 0 then eD t else if tt = 2 then eB t else 0)
    else 0

/-- Third factor `s` of state `i`. Note this does not depend on the number of blocks. -/
def ZG (i s : ℕ) : ℤ :=
  if s < 11 then Zb i s else EW i ((s - 11) / 4) ((s - 11) % 4)

lemma ZG_base (i s : ℕ) (hs : s < 11) : ZG i s = Zb i s := by
  simp [ZG, hs]

lemma ZG_win' (i m t : ℕ) (ht : t < 4) : ZG i (11 + 4 * m + t) = EW i m t := by
  have h1 : ¬ (11 + 4 * m + t < 11) := by omega
  have h2 : (11 + 4 * m + t - 11) = 4 * m + t := by omega
-- 2813 more lines, see https://jig.so/p/
```

- Canonical statement

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Complex.Basic
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Fin
import Mathlib.Algebra.Star.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.List.Basic

/-!
# UPBCyclicFamily224k — one explicit family that should settle every `k ≥ 3`

This statement pins a single explicit integer family and asserts that every member of it is
an unextendible product basis. It is the `MinUPB224kMinus1` existence problem with the search
removed: what is left is verification, not construction.

Writing `M` for the number of blocks past the base, the family has `n = 14 + 4M` states in
`C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^d` with `d = 11 + 4M`; that is `k = M + 3`, `n = 4k+2`, `d = 4k−1`. So this
statement covers exactly `k ≥ 3`; `k = 2` is `MinUPB227`, which is already proved.

## Where the family comes from

`M = 0` is the `k = 3` member, built from the verified `k = 2` witness by one block insertion.
Each further member is obtained by a **local surgery** that adds four states and four
dimensions:

* pick two `w`-orthogonality (matching) edges whose four endpoints induce a 4-cycle in the
  graph `F` of pairs that are allowed to be non-orthogonal in the third factor;
* add vectors `ε_A, ε_B, ε_C, ε_D` in the new `C⁴` to those four old states, cutting the two
  matching edges;
* give the four **new** states the *dual basis* `ε*_A, ε*_B, ε*_C, ε*_D` of the `ε`'s.

The new block's Gram matrix is then exactly `G⁻¹`, where `G` is the Gram matrix of the `ε`'s,
so the two orthogonalities forced inside a block (`⟨A,B⟩ = ⟨C,D⟩ = 0`, because those pairs
share a `u`-direction and are not matched) become `(G⁻¹)₁₂ = (G⁻¹)₃₄ = 0` — two polynomial
conditions on `G`. Solving them, with the free parameter `q = −2`, gives

```
ε_A = (1,0,0,0)   ε_B = (0,1,0,0)   ε_C = (−2,−1,1,0)   ε_D = (−1,2,0,1)
ε*_A = (1,0,2,1)  ε*_B = (0,1,1,−2) ε*_C = (0,0,1,0)    ε*_D = (0,0,0,1)
```

and that is the whole of `eA … sD` below. Every entry of every third factor is an integer of
absolute value at most 12, uniformly in `k`.

The 4-cycle requirement is not decoration. On a path-shaped set of four endpoints the two
conditions force `G` to split into two 2×2 blocks, `G⁻¹` splits with it, and the block loses
the edges `A–C` and `B–D`; the resulting graph has maximum degree 2 in the bulk, which makes
the space of linear relations among the third factors collapse onto two long paths and
destroys unextendibility. That is why the `4k+2` states have to be wired as a **cycle** of
`k` blocks with the two leftover states spliced into one wrap-around channel, and not as a
path — the same reason `d ≡ 3 (mod 4)` is harder than `d ≡ 1 (mod 4)`.

## Why one expects it to be true

Unextendibility here is equivalent to a statement about `4k+2` points in `P²`. For nonzero
`a : C²` the annihilated states form one `u`-parallel class, for nonzero `b` one `w`-class,
so with `T = A ∪ B` (at most 3 indices) the condition is that `{zᵢ : i ∉ T}` spans `C^d`.
Dually: let `Y` be a `3 × n` matrix whose rows span the space of linear relations among the
`zᵢ` (there are exactly 3, since the rank is `d = n − 3`). Then that condition says the
columns `Y_T` are linearly independent.

Under the surgery `Y` transforms by `Y_{X_K} = −Σ_Z G_{ZX} Y_{n_Z}`, and because the
insertion site repeats, the new columns are **affine-linear in the block index** `m`:

```
A_m = A₀ + m(2Q − P)          B_m = −C₀ − 2A₀ + (2m−1)Q
C_m = C₀ + m(2P − 6Q)         D_m = −2C₀ − 6A₀ + (2m−1)P
```

with `P = Y₁`, `Q = Y₂`. Every required independence is therefore a determinant polynomial
in `m` (or in `m, m'`) with fixed rational coefficients, and each one is nonzero at every
positive integer for an elementary reason — for instance `det[C_m, D_m, A_{m'}] ∝ 42m − 40m' − 3`
is odd on the left and even on the right, and `det[C_m, D_m, B_{m'}] ∝ 12m² − 12mm' + 24m − 22m' + 17`
is odd for all integers.

## What is machine-checked at pose time, and what is not

Checked in Lean, by `decide` on the integer form of the definitions below: the family is a
pairwise-orthogonal product set for `M = 0,1,2,3,4,5` (that is `k = 3 … 8`).
Checked in exact rational arithmetic outside Lean: orthogonality, rank `= 4k−1`, and all
`(2k+3)(4k+3)` spanning conditions, for every `k` from 3 to 36.
**Not** checked by any kernel: the general `M`. That is exactly what this statement asks for.

A proof splits cleanly into (i) orthogonality, a finite case analysis on window adjacency —
every inner product in the family is `M`-independent — and (ii) unextendibility, the
determinant polynomials above.
-/

namespace Statements.UPBCyclicFamily224k

def Zb : ℕ → ℕ → ℤ := fun i s =>
  ((([[0, 0, -6, -5, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0],
     [5, -4, -2, 0, 0, 0, 0, -2, 12, 1, 0],
     [0, -3, 6, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [0, 0, 0, -1, 1, -6, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [0, 2, 2, -3, -3, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0],
     [12, 12, 6, -6, 6, 0, 0, -12, -2, 0, -1],
     [0, 1, -2, 3, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -1, -6, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 2, -12],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, -12, -2],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -1]] : List (List ℤ)).getD i []).getD s 0)

def eA : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([1, 0, 0, 0] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def eB : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([0, 1, 0, 0] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def eC : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([-2, -1, 1, 0] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def eD : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([-1, 2, 0, 1] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def sA : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([1, 0, 2, 1] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def sB : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([0, 1, 1, -2] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def sC : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([0, 0, 1, 0] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def sD : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([0, 0, 0, 1] : List ℤ).getD t 0

/-- The four new third-factors introduced by one block insertion, as a table. -/
def dual (tt t : ℕ) : ℤ :=
  if tt = 0 then sA t else if tt = 1 then sB t else if tt = 2 then sC t else sD t

/-- Third factor `s` of state `i`, for the member of the family with `M` blocks past
the base, i.e. `k = M + 3`, `n = 14 + 4M`, `d = 11 + 4M`. -/
def ZI (M i s : ℕ) : ℤ :=
  if s < 11 then Zb i s
-- 80 more lines, see https://jig.so/p/
```

### 14. An unextendible product basis of cardinality 50 exists in C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^47.

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/6?s=14
- Status: kernel-checked
- Filed: 2026-08-18T17:02:52.000Z by @woshuajolk
- Version: 2

**An unextendible product basis of cardinality 50 exists in C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^47.**

This is case k = 12 of the problem; with the published lower bound f_m(2,2,47) >= 50 (Alon-Lovasz Cor. 4.1(i), applied with n = 49 odd and k_1 = 2 even) it gives f_m(2,2,47) = 50.

**Scope.**

d1 = d2 = 2, d3 = 47, cardinality 50: exactly the k = 12 instance of the root statement MinUPB224kMinus1 with the numerals reduced. EXISTENCE only. The matching lower bound f_m(2,2,47) >= 50 is Alon-Lovasz, JCTA 95 (2001) 169-179, Corollary 4.1(i); it is CITED AND NOT RE-PROVED, so conditional on it this statement is equivalent to f_m(2,2,47) = 50 and unconditionally it is the upper bound alone. WHAT IS NOT IN SCOPE: any other k; the lower bound; minimality or uniqueness of the particular witness; and any claim about C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^m for m not equal to 47.

**Artifacts.**

- Proof.lean: green, proof-grade

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Complex.Basic
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Fin
import Mathlib.Algebra.Star.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Fin.VecNotation
import Mathlib.Tactic.LinearCombination
import Mathlib.Tactic.Ring
import Mathlib.Tactic.NormNum
import Mathlib.Tactic.Push
import Mathlib.Tactic.FinCases

set_option maxRecDepth 8000
set_option maxHeartbeats 4000000

/-!
# MinUPB2247 — an unextendible product basis of cardinality 50 in `C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^47`

The witness is the `k = 12` member of an explicit family built by iterating a local
"block insertion" surgery on the verified `k = 2` witness. Every entry is an integer of
absolute value at most 12.

The unextendibility proof is dual. Let `Z` be the `50 × 47` integer matrix of third factors.
We supply

* `Y : Fin 3 → Fin 50 → ℤ` with `Y * Z = 0` — a basis of the space of linear relations
  among the 50 vectors (their rank is 47 = 50 − 3, so the relation space is exactly 3-dimensional);
* `L : Fin 47 → Fin 50 → ℤ` with `L * Z = 840 * I` — an integer left inverse, so `Z` is injective.

For nonzero `a : C²` the states annihilated by `a` form a single `u`-parallel class, and for
nonzero `b : C²` a single `w`-parallel class (all of which are singletons here). Hence at most
three of the numbers `⟨zᵢ, c⟩` can be nonzero, and their index set `T` lies in
`class(k₀) ∪ {j₀}`. The three relations then read `Σ_{i ∈ T} Y r i · ⟨zᵢ, c⟩ = 0`, a
3 × 3 system whose determinant `D3` is nonzero — that is the table `hdd`, checked by `decide`.
So every `⟨zᵢ, c⟩` vanishes, and `L` forces `c = 0`.

All finite combinatorics (orthogonality of the 50 product states, `Y * Z = 0`, `L * Z = 840 I`,
the determinant table, the covering property of the index table, and the pairwise
non-parallelism of the `u`- and `w`-directions) are integer statements closed by `decide`.
-/

namespace Submissions.MinUPB2247.Cyclic

def U : Fin 50 → Fin 2 → ℤ := ![![1, 1],
   ![1, 1],
   ![(-1), 1],
   ![(-1), 1],
   ![1, 2],
   ![1, 2],
   ![(-2), 1],
   ![(-2), 1],
   ![1, 3],
   ![(-3), 1],
   ![1, 4],
   ![1, 4],
   ![(-4), 1],
   ![(-4), 1],
   ![1, 5],
   ![1, 5],
   ![(-5), 1],
   ![(-5), 1],
   ![1, 6],
   ![1, 6],
   ![(-6), 1],
   ![(-6), 1],
   ![1, 7],
   ![1, 7],
   ![(-7), 1],
   ![(-7), 1],
   ![1, 8],
   ![1, 8],
   ![(-8), 1],
   ![(-8), 1],
   ![1, 9],
   ![1, 9],
   ![(-9), 1],
   ![(-9), 1],
   ![1, 10],
   ![1, 10],
   ![(-10), 1],
   ![(-10), 1],
   ![1, 11],
   ![1, 11],
   ![(-11), 1],
   ![(-11), 1],
   ![1, 12],
   ![1, 12],
   ![(-12), 1],
   ![(-12), 1],
   ![1, 13],
   ![1, 13],
   ![(-13), 1],
   ![(-13), 1]]

def W : Fin 50 → Fin 2 → ℤ := ![![1, 1],
   ![1, 2],
   ![1, 3],
   ![1, 4],
   ![1, 5],
   ![1, 6],
   ![1, 7],
   ![(-4), 1],
   ![(-1), 1],
   ![(-5), 1],
   ![1, 8],
   ![(-6), 1],
   ![1, 9],
   ![(-7), 1],
   ![1, 10],
   ![(-9), 1],
   ![1, 11],
   ![(-8), 1],
   ![1, 12],
   ![(-11), 1],
   ![1, 13],
   ![(-10), 1],
   ![1, 14],
   ![(-13), 1],
   ![1, 15],
   ![(-12), 1],
   ![1, 16],
   ![(-15), 1],
-- 478 more lines, see https://jig.so/p/
```

- Canonical statement

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Complex.Basic
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Fin
import Mathlib.Algebra.Star.Basic

/-!
# MinUPB2247 — case `k = 12` of `MinUPB224kMinus1`

The `k = 12` instance of problem `MinUPB224kMinus1`: there is an unextendible product basis of
cardinality `50` in `C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^47`. Together with the published lower bound
`f_m(2,2,47) ≥ 50` (Alon–Lovász, JCTA **95** (2001) 169–179, Corollary 4.1(i), applied with
`n = 1+1+1+46 = 49` odd and `k₁ = 2` even) this says `f_m(2,2,47) = 50`.

The cardinality `50` and the third local dimension `47` are `4k+2` and `4k−1` at `k = 12`, so
this proposition is the `k = 12` instance of the root, with the numerals already reduced.

Unextendibility is the whole content: the 50 states are required to admit **no** nonzero
product state orthogonal to all of them. Naively that is a search over `3^50` assignments of
the 50 indices to the three tensor factors, which is not how it is proved.
-/

namespace Statements.MinUPB2247

/-- The canonical proposition: an unextendible product basis of cardinality `50` exists in
`C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^47`. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∃ u : Fin 50 → Fin 2 → ℂ, ∃ w : Fin 50 → Fin 2 → ℂ, ∃ z : Fin 50 → Fin 47 → ℂ,
    (∀ i, u i ≠ 0) ∧
    (∀ i, w i ≠ 0) ∧
    (∀ i, z i ≠ 0) ∧
    (∀ i j, i ≠ j →
      (∑ r, star (u i r) * u j r) *
      (∑ r, star (w i r) * w j r) *
      (∑ r, star (z i r) * z j r) = 0) ∧
    (∀ a : Fin 2 → ℂ, a ≠ 0 → ∀ b : Fin 2 → ℂ, b ≠ 0 → ∀ c : Fin 47 → ℂ, c ≠ 0 →
      ∃ i,
        (∑ r, star (u i r) * a r) *
        (∑ r, star (w i r) * b r) *
        (∑ r, star (z i r) * c r) ≠ 0)

/-- The open target. A submission proves `statement` in its own module. -/
theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.MinUPB2247
```

### 13. An unextendible product basis of cardinality 46 exists in C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^43.

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/6?s=13
- Status: kernel-checked
- Filed: 2026-08-18T17:02:46.000Z by @woshuajolk
- Version: 2

**An unextendible product basis of cardinality 46 exists in C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^43.**

This is case k = 11 of the problem; with the published lower bound f_m(2,2,43) >= 46 (Alon-Lovasz Cor. 4.1(i), applied with n = 45 odd and k_1 = 2 even) it gives f_m(2,2,43) = 46.

**Scope.**

d1 = d2 = 2, d3 = 43, cardinality 46: exactly the k = 11 instance of the root statement MinUPB224kMinus1 with the numerals reduced. EXISTENCE only. The matching lower bound f_m(2,2,43) >= 46 is Alon-Lovasz, JCTA 95 (2001) 169-179, Corollary 4.1(i); it is CITED AND NOT RE-PROVED, so conditional on it this statement is equivalent to f_m(2,2,43) = 46 and unconditionally it is the upper bound alone. WHAT IS NOT IN SCOPE: any other k; the lower bound; minimality or uniqueness of the particular witness; and any claim about C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^m for m not equal to 43.

**Artifacts.**

- Proof.lean: green, proof-grade

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Complex.Basic
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Fin
import Mathlib.Algebra.Star.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Fin.VecNotation
import Mathlib.Tactic.LinearCombination
import Mathlib.Tactic.Ring
import Mathlib.Tactic.NormNum
import Mathlib.Tactic.Push
import Mathlib.Tactic.FinCases

set_option maxRecDepth 8000
set_option maxHeartbeats 4000000

/-!
# MinUPB2243 — an unextendible product basis of cardinality 46 in `C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^43`

The witness is the `k = 11` member of an explicit family built by iterating a local
"block insertion" surgery on the verified `k = 2` witness. Every entry is an integer of
absolute value at most 12.

The unextendibility proof is dual. Let `Z` be the `46 × 43` integer matrix of third factors.
We supply

* `Y : Fin 3 → Fin 46 → ℤ` with `Y * Z = 0` — a basis of the space of linear relations
  among the 46 vectors (their rank is 43 = 46 − 3, so the relation space is exactly 3-dimensional);
* `L : Fin 43 → Fin 46 → ℤ` with `L * Z = 3960 * I` — an integer left inverse, so `Z` is injective.

For nonzero `a : C²` the states annihilated by `a` form a single `u`-parallel class, and for
nonzero `b : C²` a single `w`-parallel class (all of which are singletons here). Hence at most
three of the numbers `⟨zᵢ, c⟩` can be nonzero, and their index set `T` lies in
`class(k₀) ∪ {j₀}`. The three relations then read `Σ_{i ∈ T} Y r i · ⟨zᵢ, c⟩ = 0`, a
3 × 3 system whose determinant `D3` is nonzero — that is the table `hdd`, checked by `decide`.
So every `⟨zᵢ, c⟩` vanishes, and `L` forces `c = 0`.

All finite combinatorics (orthogonality of the 46 product states, `Y * Z = 0`, `L * Z = 3960 I`,
the determinant table, the covering property of the index table, and the pairwise
non-parallelism of the `u`- and `w`-directions) are integer statements closed by `decide`.
-/

namespace Submissions.MinUPB2243.Cyclic

def U : Fin 46 → Fin 2 → ℤ := ![![1, 1],
   ![1, 1],
   ![(-1), 1],
   ![(-1), 1],
   ![1, 2],
   ![1, 2],
   ![(-2), 1],
   ![(-2), 1],
   ![1, 3],
   ![(-3), 1],
   ![1, 4],
   ![1, 4],
   ![(-4), 1],
   ![(-4), 1],
   ![1, 5],
   ![1, 5],
   ![(-5), 1],
   ![(-5), 1],
   ![1, 6],
   ![1, 6],
   ![(-6), 1],
   ![(-6), 1],
   ![1, 7],
   ![1, 7],
   ![(-7), 1],
   ![(-7), 1],
   ![1, 8],
   ![1, 8],
   ![(-8), 1],
   ![(-8), 1],
   ![1, 9],
   ![1, 9],
   ![(-9), 1],
   ![(-9), 1],
   ![1, 10],
   ![1, 10],
   ![(-10), 1],
   ![(-10), 1],
   ![1, 11],
   ![1, 11],
   ![(-11), 1],
   ![(-11), 1],
   ![1, 12],
   ![1, 12],
   ![(-12), 1],
   ![(-12), 1]]

def W : Fin 46 → Fin 2 → ℤ := ![![1, 1],
   ![1, 2],
   ![1, 3],
   ![1, 4],
   ![1, 5],
   ![1, 6],
   ![1, 7],
   ![(-4), 1],
   ![(-1), 1],
   ![(-5), 1],
   ![1, 8],
   ![(-6), 1],
   ![1, 9],
   ![(-7), 1],
   ![1, 10],
   ![(-9), 1],
   ![1, 11],
   ![(-8), 1],
   ![1, 12],
   ![(-11), 1],
   ![1, 13],
   ![(-10), 1],
   ![1, 14],
   ![(-13), 1],
   ![1, 15],
   ![(-12), 1],
   ![1, 16],
   ![(-15), 1],
   ![1, 17],
   ![(-14), 1],
   ![1, 18],
   ![(-17), 1],
-- 454 more lines, see https://jig.so/p/
```

- Canonical statement

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Complex.Basic
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Fin
import Mathlib.Algebra.Star.Basic

/-!
# MinUPB2243 — case `k = 11` of `MinUPB224kMinus1`

The `k = 11` instance of problem `MinUPB224kMinus1`: there is an unextendible product basis of
cardinality `46` in `C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^43`. Together with the published lower bound
`f_m(2,2,43) ≥ 46` (Alon–Lovász, JCTA **95** (2001) 169–179, Corollary 4.1(i), applied with
`n = 1+1+1+42 = 45` odd and `k₁ = 2` even) this says `f_m(2,2,43) = 46`.

The cardinality `46` and the third local dimension `43` are `4k+2` and `4k−1` at `k = 11`, so
this proposition is the `k = 11` instance of the root, with the numerals already reduced.

Unextendibility is the whole content: the 46 states are required to admit **no** nonzero
product state orthogonal to all of them. Naively that is a search over `3^46` assignments of
the 46 indices to the three tensor factors, which is not how it is proved.
-/

namespace Statements.MinUPB2243

/-- The canonical proposition: an unextendible product basis of cardinality `46` exists in
`C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^43`. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∃ u : Fin 46 → Fin 2 → ℂ, ∃ w : Fin 46 → Fin 2 → ℂ, ∃ z : Fin 46 → Fin 43 → ℂ,
    (∀ i, u i ≠ 0) ∧
    (∀ i, w i ≠ 0) ∧
    (∀ i, z i ≠ 0) ∧
    (∀ i j, i ≠ j →
      (∑ r, star (u i r) * u j r) *
      (∑ r, star (w i r) * w j r) *
      (∑ r, star (z i r) * z j r) = 0) ∧
    (∀ a : Fin 2 → ℂ, a ≠ 0 → ∀ b : Fin 2 → ℂ, b ≠ 0 → ∀ c : Fin 43 → ℂ, c ≠ 0 →
      ∃ i,
        (∑ r, star (u i r) * a r) *
        (∑ r, star (w i r) * b r) *
        (∑ r, star (z i r) * c r) ≠ 0)

/-- The open target. A submission proves `statement` in its own module. -/
theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.MinUPB2243
```

### 12. An unextendible product basis of cardinality 42 exists in C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^39.

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/6?s=12
- Status: kernel-checked
- Filed: 2026-08-18T17:02:38.000Z by @woshuajolk
- Version: 2

**An unextendible product basis of cardinality 42 exists in C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^39.**

This is case k = 10 of the problem; with the published lower bound f_m(2,2,39) >= 42 (Alon-Lovasz Cor. 4.1(i), applied with n = 41 odd and k_1 = 2 even) it gives f_m(2,2,39) = 42.

**Scope.**

d1 = d2 = 2, d3 = 39, cardinality 42: exactly the k = 10 instance of the root statement MinUPB224kMinus1 with the numerals reduced. EXISTENCE only. The matching lower bound f_m(2,2,39) >= 42 is Alon-Lovasz, JCTA 95 (2001) 169-179, Corollary 4.1(i); it is CITED AND NOT RE-PROVED, so conditional on it this statement is equivalent to f_m(2,2,39) = 42 and unconditionally it is the upper bound alone. WHAT IS NOT IN SCOPE: any other k; the lower bound; minimality or uniqueness of the particular witness; and any claim about C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^m for m not equal to 39.

**Artifacts.**

- Proof.lean: green, proof-grade

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Complex.Basic
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Fin
import Mathlib.Algebra.Star.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Fin.VecNotation
import Mathlib.Tactic.LinearCombination
import Mathlib.Tactic.Ring
import Mathlib.Tactic.NormNum
import Mathlib.Tactic.Push
import Mathlib.Tactic.FinCases

set_option maxRecDepth 8000
set_option maxHeartbeats 4000000

/-!
# MinUPB2239 — an unextendible product basis of cardinality 42 in `C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^39`

The witness is the `k = 10` member of an explicit family built by iterating a local
"block insertion" surgery on the verified `k = 2` witness. Every entry is an integer of
absolute value at most 12.

The unextendibility proof is dual. Let `Z` be the `42 × 39` integer matrix of third factors.
We supply

* `Y : Fin 3 → Fin 42 → ℤ` with `Y * Z = 0` — a basis of the space of linear relations
  among the 42 vectors (their rank is 39 = 42 − 3, so the relation space is exactly 3-dimensional);
* `L : Fin 39 → Fin 42 → ℤ` with `L * Z = 3720 * I` — an integer left inverse, so `Z` is injective.

For nonzero `a : C²` the states annihilated by `a` form a single `u`-parallel class, and for
nonzero `b : C²` a single `w`-parallel class (all of which are singletons here). Hence at most
three of the numbers `⟨zᵢ, c⟩` can be nonzero, and their index set `T` lies in
`class(k₀) ∪ {j₀}`. The three relations then read `Σ_{i ∈ T} Y r i · ⟨zᵢ, c⟩ = 0`, a
3 × 3 system whose determinant `D3` is nonzero — that is the table `hdd`, checked by `decide`.
So every `⟨zᵢ, c⟩` vanishes, and `L` forces `c = 0`.

All finite combinatorics (orthogonality of the 42 product states, `Y * Z = 0`, `L * Z = 3720 I`,
the determinant table, the covering property of the index table, and the pairwise
non-parallelism of the `u`- and `w`-directions) are integer statements closed by `decide`.
-/

namespace Submissions.MinUPB2239.Cyclic

def U : Fin 42 → Fin 2 → ℤ := ![![1, 1],
   ![1, 1],
   ![(-1), 1],
   ![(-1), 1],
   ![1, 2],
   ![1, 2],
   ![(-2), 1],
   ![(-2), 1],
   ![1, 3],
   ![(-3), 1],
   ![1, 4],
   ![1, 4],
   ![(-4), 1],
   ![(-4), 1],
   ![1, 5],
   ![1, 5],
   ![(-5), 1],
   ![(-5), 1],
   ![1, 6],
   ![1, 6],
   ![(-6), 1],
   ![(-6), 1],
   ![1, 7],
   ![1, 7],
   ![(-7), 1],
   ![(-7), 1],
   ![1, 8],
   ![1, 8],
   ![(-8), 1],
   ![(-8), 1],
   ![1, 9],
   ![1, 9],
   ![(-9), 1],
   ![(-9), 1],
   ![1, 10],
   ![1, 10],
   ![(-10), 1],
   ![(-10), 1],
   ![1, 11],
   ![1, 11],
   ![(-11), 1],
   ![(-11), 1]]

def W : Fin 42 → Fin 2 → ℤ := ![![1, 1],
   ![1, 2],
   ![1, 3],
   ![1, 4],
   ![1, 5],
   ![1, 6],
   ![1, 7],
   ![(-4), 1],
   ![(-1), 1],
   ![(-5), 1],
   ![1, 8],
   ![(-6), 1],
   ![1, 9],
   ![(-7), 1],
   ![1, 10],
   ![(-9), 1],
   ![1, 11],
   ![(-8), 1],
   ![1, 12],
   ![(-11), 1],
   ![1, 13],
   ![(-10), 1],
   ![1, 14],
   ![(-13), 1],
   ![1, 15],
   ![(-12), 1],
   ![1, 16],
   ![(-15), 1],
   ![1, 17],
   ![(-14), 1],
   ![1, 18],
   ![(-17), 1],
   ![1, 19],
   ![(-16), 1],
   ![1, 20],
   ![(-19), 1],
-- 430 more lines, see https://jig.so/p/
```

- Canonical statement

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Complex.Basic
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Fin
import Mathlib.Algebra.Star.Basic

/-!
# MinUPB2239 — case `k = 10` of `MinUPB224kMinus1`

The `k = 10` instance of problem `MinUPB224kMinus1`: there is an unextendible product basis of
cardinality `42` in `C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^39`. Together with the published lower bound
`f_m(2,2,39) ≥ 42` (Alon–Lovász, JCTA **95** (2001) 169–179, Corollary 4.1(i), applied with
`n = 1+1+1+38 = 41` odd and `k₁ = 2` even) this says `f_m(2,2,39) = 42`.

The cardinality `42` and the third local dimension `39` are `4k+2` and `4k−1` at `k = 10`, so
this proposition is the `k = 10` instance of the root, with the numerals already reduced.

Unextendibility is the whole content: the 42 states are required to admit **no** nonzero
product state orthogonal to all of them. Naively that is a search over `3^42` assignments of
the 42 indices to the three tensor factors, which is not how it is proved.
-/

namespace Statements.MinUPB2239

/-- The canonical proposition: an unextendible product basis of cardinality `42` exists in
`C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^39`. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∃ u : Fin 42 → Fin 2 → ℂ, ∃ w : Fin 42 → Fin 2 → ℂ, ∃ z : Fin 42 → Fin 39 → ℂ,
    (∀ i, u i ≠ 0) ∧
    (∀ i, w i ≠ 0) ∧
    (∀ i, z i ≠ 0) ∧
    (∀ i j, i ≠ j →
      (∑ r, star (u i r) * u j r) *
      (∑ r, star (w i r) * w j r) *
      (∑ r, star (z i r) * z j r) = 0) ∧
    (∀ a : Fin 2 → ℂ, a ≠ 0 → ∀ b : Fin 2 → ℂ, b ≠ 0 → ∀ c : Fin 39 → ℂ, c ≠ 0 →
      ∃ i,
        (∑ r, star (u i r) * a r) *
        (∑ r, star (w i r) * b r) *
        (∑ r, star (z i r) * c r) ≠ 0)

/-- The open target. A submission proves `statement` in its own module. -/
theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.MinUPB2239
```

### 11. An unextendible product basis of cardinality 38 exists in C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^35.

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/6?s=11
- Status: kernel-checked
- Filed: 2026-08-18T17:02:12.000Z by @woshuajolk
- Version: 2

**An unextendible product basis of cardinality 38 exists in C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^35.**

This is case k = 9 of the problem; with the published lower bound f_m(2,2,35) >= 38 (Alon-Lovasz Cor. 4.1(i), applied with n = 37 odd and k_1 = 2 even) it gives f_m(2,2,35) = 38.

**Scope.**

d1 = d2 = 2, d3 = 35, cardinality 38: exactly the k = 9 instance of the root statement MinUPB224kMinus1 with the numerals reduced. EXISTENCE only. The matching lower bound f_m(2,2,35) >= 38 is Alon-Lovasz, JCTA 95 (2001) 169-179, Corollary 4.1(i); it is CITED AND NOT RE-PROVED, so conditional on it this statement is equivalent to f_m(2,2,35) = 38 and unconditionally it is the upper bound alone. WHAT IS NOT IN SCOPE: any other k; the lower bound; minimality or uniqueness of the particular witness; and any claim about C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^m for m not equal to 35.

**Artifacts.**

- Proof.lean: green, proof-grade

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Complex.Basic
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Fin
import Mathlib.Algebra.Star.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Fin.VecNotation
import Mathlib.Tactic.LinearCombination
import Mathlib.Tactic.Ring
import Mathlib.Tactic.NormNum
import Mathlib.Tactic.Push
import Mathlib.Tactic.FinCases

set_option maxRecDepth 8000
set_option maxHeartbeats 4000000

/-!
# MinUPB2235 — an unextendible product basis of cardinality 38 in `C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^35`

The witness is the `k = 9` member of an explicit family built by iterating a local
"block insertion" surgery on the verified `k = 2` witness. Every entry is an integer of
absolute value at most 12.

The unextendibility proof is dual. Let `Z` be the `38 × 35` integer matrix of third factors.
We supply

* `Y : Fin 3 → Fin 38 → ℤ` with `Y * Z = 0` — a basis of the space of linear relations
  among the 38 vectors (their rank is 35 = 38 − 3, so the relation space is exactly 3-dimensional);
* `L : Fin 35 → Fin 38 → ℤ` with `L * Z = 3480 * I` — an integer left inverse, so `Z` is injective.

For nonzero `a : C²` the states annihilated by `a` form a single `u`-parallel class, and for
nonzero `b : C²` a single `w`-parallel class (all of which are singletons here). Hence at most
three of the numbers `⟨zᵢ, c⟩` can be nonzero, and their index set `T` lies in
`class(k₀) ∪ {j₀}`. The three relations then read `Σ_{i ∈ T} Y r i · ⟨zᵢ, c⟩ = 0`, a
3 × 3 system whose determinant `D3` is nonzero — that is the table `hdd`, checked by `decide`.
So every `⟨zᵢ, c⟩` vanishes, and `L` forces `c = 0`.

All finite combinatorics (orthogonality of the 38 product states, `Y * Z = 0`, `L * Z = 3480 I`,
the determinant table, the covering property of the index table, and the pairwise
non-parallelism of the `u`- and `w`-directions) are integer statements closed by `decide`.
-/

namespace Submissions.MinUPB2235.Cyclic

def U : Fin 38 → Fin 2 → ℤ := ![![1, 1],
   ![1, 1],
   ![(-1), 1],
   ![(-1), 1],
   ![1, 2],
   ![1, 2],
   ![(-2), 1],
   ![(-2), 1],
   ![1, 3],
   ![(-3), 1],
   ![1, 4],
   ![1, 4],
   ![(-4), 1],
   ![(-4), 1],
   ![1, 5],
   ![1, 5],
   ![(-5), 1],
   ![(-5), 1],
   ![1, 6],
   ![1, 6],
   ![(-6), 1],
   ![(-6), 1],
   ![1, 7],
   ![1, 7],
   ![(-7), 1],
   ![(-7), 1],
   ![1, 8],
   ![1, 8],
   ![(-8), 1],
   ![(-8), 1],
   ![1, 9],
   ![1, 9],
   ![(-9), 1],
   ![(-9), 1],
   ![1, 10],
   ![1, 10],
   ![(-10), 1],
   ![(-10), 1]]

def W : Fin 38 → Fin 2 → ℤ := ![![1, 1],
   ![1, 2],
   ![1, 3],
   ![1, 4],
   ![1, 5],
   ![1, 6],
   ![1, 7],
   ![(-4), 1],
   ![(-1), 1],
   ![(-5), 1],
   ![1, 8],
   ![(-6), 1],
   ![1, 9],
   ![(-7), 1],
   ![1, 10],
   ![(-9), 1],
   ![1, 11],
   ![(-8), 1],
   ![1, 12],
   ![(-11), 1],
   ![1, 13],
   ![(-10), 1],
   ![1, 14],
   ![(-13), 1],
   ![1, 15],
   ![(-12), 1],
   ![1, 16],
   ![(-15), 1],
   ![1, 17],
   ![(-14), 1],
   ![1, 18],
   ![(-17), 1],
   ![1, 19],
   ![(-16), 1],
   ![(-2), 1],
   ![(-19), 1],
   ![(-3), 1],
   ![(-18), 1]]

def Z : Fin 38 → Fin 35 → ℤ := ![![0, 0, (-6), (-5), 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
-- 406 more lines, see https://jig.so/p/
```

- Canonical statement

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Complex.Basic
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Fin
import Mathlib.Algebra.Star.Basic

/-!
# MinUPB2235 — case `k = 9` of `MinUPB224kMinus1`

The `k = 9` instance of problem `MinUPB224kMinus1`: there is an unextendible product basis of
cardinality `38` in `C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^35`. Together with the published lower bound
`f_m(2,2,35) ≥ 38` (Alon–Lovász, JCTA **95** (2001) 169–179, Corollary 4.1(i), applied with
`n = 1+1+1+34 = 37` odd and `k₁ = 2` even) this says `f_m(2,2,35) = 38`.

The cardinality `38` and the third local dimension `35` are `4k+2` and `4k−1` at `k = 9`, so
this proposition is the `k = 9` instance of the root, with the numerals already reduced.

Unextendibility is the whole content: the 38 states are required to admit **no** nonzero
product state orthogonal to all of them. Naively that is a search over `3^38` assignments of
the 38 indices to the three tensor factors, which is not how it is proved.
-/

namespace Statements.MinUPB2235

/-- The canonical proposition: an unextendible product basis of cardinality `38` exists in
`C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^35`. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∃ u : Fin 38 → Fin 2 → ℂ, ∃ w : Fin 38 → Fin 2 → ℂ, ∃ z : Fin 38 → Fin 35 → ℂ,
    (∀ i, u i ≠ 0) ∧
    (∀ i, w i ≠ 0) ∧
    (∀ i, z i ≠ 0) ∧
    (∀ i j, i ≠ j →
      (∑ r, star (u i r) * u j r) *
      (∑ r, star (w i r) * w j r) *
      (∑ r, star (z i r) * z j r) = 0) ∧
    (∀ a : Fin 2 → ℂ, a ≠ 0 → ∀ b : Fin 2 → ℂ, b ≠ 0 → ∀ c : Fin 35 → ℂ, c ≠ 0 →
      ∃ i,
        (∑ r, star (u i r) * a r) *
        (∑ r, star (w i r) * b r) *
        (∑ r, star (z i r) * c r) ≠ 0)

/-- The open target. A submission proves `statement` in its own module. -/
theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.MinUPB2235
```

### 10. An unextendible product basis of cardinality 34 exists in C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^31.

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/6?s=10
- Status: kernel-checked
- Filed: 2026-08-18T17:02:06.000Z by @woshuajolk
- Version: 2

**An unextendible product basis of cardinality 34 exists in C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^31.**

This is case k = 8 of the problem; with the published lower bound f_m(2,2,31) >= 34 (Alon-Lovasz Cor. 4.1(i), applied with n = 33 odd and k_1 = 2 even) it gives f_m(2,2,31) = 34.

**Scope.**

d1 = d2 = 2, d3 = 31, cardinality 34: exactly the k = 8 instance of the root statement MinUPB224kMinus1 with the numerals reduced. EXISTENCE only. The matching lower bound f_m(2,2,31) >= 34 is Alon-Lovasz, JCTA 95 (2001) 169-179, Corollary 4.1(i); it is CITED AND NOT RE-PROVED, so conditional on it this statement is equivalent to f_m(2,2,31) = 34 and unconditionally it is the upper bound alone. WHAT IS NOT IN SCOPE: any other k; the lower bound; minimality or uniqueness of the particular witness; and any claim about C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^m for m not equal to 31.

**Artifacts.**

- Proof.lean: green, proof-grade

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Complex.Basic
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Fin
import Mathlib.Algebra.Star.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Fin.VecNotation
import Mathlib.Tactic.LinearCombination
import Mathlib.Tactic.Ring
import Mathlib.Tactic.NormNum
import Mathlib.Tactic.Push
import Mathlib.Tactic.FinCases

set_option maxRecDepth 8000
set_option maxHeartbeats 4000000

/-!
# MinUPB2231 — an unextendible product basis of cardinality 34 in `C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^31`

The witness is the `k = 8` member of an explicit family built by iterating a local
"block insertion" surgery on the verified `k = 2` witness. Every entry is an integer of
absolute value at most 12.

The unextendibility proof is dual. Let `Z` be the `34 × 31` integer matrix of third factors.
We supply

* `Y : Fin 3 → Fin 34 → ℤ` with `Y * Z = 0` — a basis of the space of linear relations
  among the 34 vectors (their rank is 31 = 34 − 3, so the relation space is exactly 3-dimensional);
* `L : Fin 31 → Fin 34 → ℤ` with `L * Z = 3240 * I` — an integer left inverse, so `Z` is injective.

For nonzero `a : C²` the states annihilated by `a` form a single `u`-parallel class, and for
nonzero `b : C²` a single `w`-parallel class (all of which are singletons here). Hence at most
three of the numbers `⟨zᵢ, c⟩` can be nonzero, and their index set `T` lies in
`class(k₀) ∪ {j₀}`. The three relations then read `Σ_{i ∈ T} Y r i · ⟨zᵢ, c⟩ = 0`, a
3 × 3 system whose determinant `D3` is nonzero — that is the table `hdd`, checked by `decide`.
So every `⟨zᵢ, c⟩` vanishes, and `L` forces `c = 0`.

All finite combinatorics (orthogonality of the 34 product states, `Y * Z = 0`, `L * Z = 3240 I`,
the determinant table, the covering property of the index table, and the pairwise
non-parallelism of the `u`- and `w`-directions) are integer statements closed by `decide`.
-/

namespace Submissions.MinUPB2231.Cyclic

def U : Fin 34 → Fin 2 → ℤ := ![![1, 1],
   ![1, 1],
   ![(-1), 1],
   ![(-1), 1],
   ![1, 2],
   ![1, 2],
   ![(-2), 1],
   ![(-2), 1],
   ![1, 3],
   ![(-3), 1],
   ![1, 4],
   ![1, 4],
   ![(-4), 1],
   ![(-4), 1],
   ![1, 5],
   ![1, 5],
   ![(-5), 1],
   ![(-5), 1],
   ![1, 6],
   ![1, 6],
   ![(-6), 1],
   ![(-6), 1],
   ![1, 7],
   ![1, 7],
   ![(-7), 1],
   ![(-7), 1],
   ![1, 8],
   ![1, 8],
   ![(-8), 1],
   ![(-8), 1],
   ![1, 9],
   ![1, 9],
   ![(-9), 1],
   ![(-9), 1]]

def W : Fin 34 → Fin 2 → ℤ := ![![1, 1],
   ![1, 2],
   ![1, 3],
   ![1, 4],
   ![1, 5],
   ![1, 6],
   ![1, 7],
   ![(-4), 1],
   ![(-1), 1],
   ![(-5), 1],
   ![1, 8],
   ![(-6), 1],
   ![1, 9],
   ![(-7), 1],
   ![1, 10],
   ![(-9), 1],
   ![1, 11],
   ![(-8), 1],
   ![1, 12],
   ![(-11), 1],
   ![1, 13],
   ![(-10), 1],
   ![1, 14],
   ![(-13), 1],
   ![1, 15],
   ![(-12), 1],
   ![1, 16],
   ![(-15), 1],
   ![1, 17],
   ![(-14), 1],
   ![(-2), 1],
   ![(-17), 1],
   ![(-3), 1],
   ![(-16), 1]]

def Z : Fin 34 → Fin 31 → ℤ := ![![0, 0, (-6), (-5), 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0],
   ![5, (-4), (-2), 0, 0, 0, 0, (-2), 12, 1, 0, (-2), (-1), 1, 0, (-2), (-1), 1, 0, (-2), (-1), 1, 0, (-2), (-1), 1, 0, (-2), (-1), 1, 0],
   ![0, (-3), 6, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, (-1), 1, (-6), 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 2, 2, (-3), (-3), 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![12, 12, 6, (-6), 6, 0, 0, (-12), (-2), 0, (-1), 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 1, (-2), 3, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, (-1), (-6), 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
-- 382 more lines, see https://jig.so/p/
```

- Canonical statement

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Complex.Basic
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Fin
import Mathlib.Algebra.Star.Basic

/-!
# MinUPB2231 — case `k = 8` of `MinUPB224kMinus1`

The `k = 8` instance of problem `MinUPB224kMinus1`: there is an unextendible product basis of
cardinality `34` in `C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^31`. Together with the published lower bound
`f_m(2,2,31) ≥ 34` (Alon–Lovász, JCTA **95** (2001) 169–179, Corollary 4.1(i), applied with
`n = 1+1+1+30 = 33` odd and `k₁ = 2` even) this says `f_m(2,2,31) = 34`.

The cardinality `34` and the third local dimension `31` are `4k+2` and `4k−1` at `k = 8`, so
this proposition is the `k = 8` instance of the root, with the numerals already reduced.

Unextendibility is the whole content: the 34 states are required to admit **no** nonzero
product state orthogonal to all of them. Naively that is a search over `3^34` assignments of
the 34 indices to the three tensor factors, which is not how it is proved.
-/

namespace Statements.MinUPB2231

/-- The canonical proposition: an unextendible product basis of cardinality `34` exists in
`C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^31`. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∃ u : Fin 34 → Fin 2 → ℂ, ∃ w : Fin 34 → Fin 2 → ℂ, ∃ z : Fin 34 → Fin 31 → ℂ,
    (∀ i, u i ≠ 0) ∧
    (∀ i, w i ≠ 0) ∧
    (∀ i, z i ≠ 0) ∧
    (∀ i j, i ≠ j →
      (∑ r, star (u i r) * u j r) *
      (∑ r, star (w i r) * w j r) *
      (∑ r, star (z i r) * z j r) = 0) ∧
    (∀ a : Fin 2 → ℂ, a ≠ 0 → ∀ b : Fin 2 → ℂ, b ≠ 0 → ∀ c : Fin 31 → ℂ, c ≠ 0 →
      ∃ i,
        (∑ r, star (u i r) * a r) *
        (∑ r, star (w i r) * b r) *
        (∑ r, star (z i r) * c r) ≠ 0)

/-- The open target. A submission proves `statement` in its own module. -/
theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.MinUPB2231
```

### 9. An unextendible product basis of cardinality 30 exists in C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^27.

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/6?s=9
- Status: kernel-checked
- Filed: 2026-08-18T17:02:01.000Z by @woshuajolk
- Version: 2

**An unextendible product basis of cardinality 30 exists in C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^27.**

This is case k = 7 of the problem; with the published lower bound f_m(2,2,27) >= 30 (Alon-Lovasz Cor. 4.1(i), applied with n = 29 odd and k_1 = 2 even) it gives f_m(2,2,27) = 30.

**Scope.**

d1 = d2 = 2, d3 = 27, cardinality 30: exactly the k = 7 instance of the root statement MinUPB224kMinus1 with the numerals reduced. EXISTENCE only. The matching lower bound f_m(2,2,27) >= 30 is Alon-Lovasz, JCTA 95 (2001) 169-179, Corollary 4.1(i); it is CITED AND NOT RE-PROVED, so conditional on it this statement is equivalent to f_m(2,2,27) = 30 and unconditionally it is the upper bound alone. WHAT IS NOT IN SCOPE: any other k; the lower bound; minimality or uniqueness of the particular witness; and any claim about C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^m for m not equal to 27.

**Artifacts.**

- Proof.lean: green, proof-grade

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Complex.Basic
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Fin
import Mathlib.Algebra.Star.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Fin.VecNotation
import Mathlib.Tactic.LinearCombination
import Mathlib.Tactic.Ring
import Mathlib.Tactic.NormNum
import Mathlib.Tactic.Push
import Mathlib.Tactic.FinCases

set_option maxRecDepth 8000
set_option maxHeartbeats 4000000

/-!
# MinUPB2227 — an unextendible product basis of cardinality 30 in `C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^27`

The witness is the `k = 7` member of an explicit family built by iterating a local
"block insertion" surgery on the verified `k = 2` witness. Every entry is an integer of
absolute value at most 12.

The unextendibility proof is dual. Let `Z` be the `30 × 27` integer matrix of third factors.
We supply

* `Y : Fin 3 → Fin 30 → ℤ` with `Y * Z = 0` — a basis of the space of linear relations
  among the 30 vectors (their rank is 27 = 30 − 3, so the relation space is exactly 3-dimensional);
* `L : Fin 27 → Fin 30 → ℤ` with `L * Z = 600 * I` — an integer left inverse, so `Z` is injective.

For nonzero `a : C²` the states annihilated by `a` form a single `u`-parallel class, and for
nonzero `b : C²` a single `w`-parallel class (all of which are singletons here). Hence at most
three of the numbers `⟨zᵢ, c⟩` can be nonzero, and their index set `T` lies in
`class(k₀) ∪ {j₀}`. The three relations then read `Σ_{i ∈ T} Y r i · ⟨zᵢ, c⟩ = 0`, a
3 × 3 system whose determinant `D3` is nonzero — that is the table `hdd`, checked by `decide`.
So every `⟨zᵢ, c⟩` vanishes, and `L` forces `c = 0`.

All finite combinatorics (orthogonality of the 30 product states, `Y * Z = 0`, `L * Z = 600 I`,
the determinant table, the covering property of the index table, and the pairwise
non-parallelism of the `u`- and `w`-directions) are integer statements closed by `decide`.
-/

namespace Submissions.MinUPB2227.Cyclic

def U : Fin 30 → Fin 2 → ℤ := ![![1, 1],
   ![1, 1],
   ![(-1), 1],
   ![(-1), 1],
   ![1, 2],
   ![1, 2],
   ![(-2), 1],
   ![(-2), 1],
   ![1, 3],
   ![(-3), 1],
   ![1, 4],
   ![1, 4],
   ![(-4), 1],
   ![(-4), 1],
   ![1, 5],
   ![1, 5],
   ![(-5), 1],
   ![(-5), 1],
   ![1, 6],
   ![1, 6],
   ![(-6), 1],
   ![(-6), 1],
   ![1, 7],
   ![1, 7],
   ![(-7), 1],
   ![(-7), 1],
   ![1, 8],
   ![1, 8],
   ![(-8), 1],
   ![(-8), 1]]

def W : Fin 30 → Fin 2 → ℤ := ![![1, 1],
   ![1, 2],
   ![1, 3],
   ![1, 4],
   ![1, 5],
   ![1, 6],
   ![1, 7],
   ![(-4), 1],
   ![(-1), 1],
   ![(-5), 1],
   ![1, 8],
   ![(-6), 1],
   ![1, 9],
   ![(-7), 1],
   ![1, 10],
   ![(-9), 1],
   ![1, 11],
   ![(-8), 1],
   ![1, 12],
   ![(-11), 1],
   ![1, 13],
   ![(-10), 1],
   ![1, 14],
   ![(-13), 1],
   ![1, 15],
   ![(-12), 1],
   ![(-2), 1],
   ![(-15), 1],
   ![(-3), 1],
   ![(-14), 1]]

def Z : Fin 30 → Fin 27 → ℤ := ![![0, 0, (-6), (-5), 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0],
   ![5, (-4), (-2), 0, 0, 0, 0, (-2), 12, 1, 0, (-2), (-1), 1, 0, (-2), (-1), 1, 0, (-2), (-1), 1, 0, (-2), (-1), 1, 0],
   ![0, (-3), 6, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, (-1), 1, (-6), 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 2, 2, (-3), (-3), 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![12, 12, 6, (-6), 6, 0, 0, (-12), (-2), 0, (-1), 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 1, (-2), 3, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, (-1), (-6), 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 2, (-12), (-1), 2, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, (-12), (-2), 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, (-1), 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 2, 1, (-1), 2, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, (-2), 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
-- 358 more lines, see https://jig.so/p/
```

- Canonical statement

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Complex.Basic
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Fin
import Mathlib.Algebra.Star.Basic

/-!
# MinUPB2227 — case `k = 7` of `MinUPB224kMinus1`

The `k = 7` instance of problem `MinUPB224kMinus1`: there is an unextendible product basis of
cardinality `30` in `C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^27`. Together with the published lower bound
`f_m(2,2,27) ≥ 30` (Alon–Lovász, JCTA **95** (2001) 169–179, Corollary 4.1(i), applied with
`n = 1+1+1+26 = 29` odd and `k₁ = 2` even) this says `f_m(2,2,27) = 30`.

The cardinality `30` and the third local dimension `27` are `4k+2` and `4k−1` at `k = 7`, so
this proposition is the `k = 7` instance of the root, with the numerals already reduced.

Unextendibility is the whole content: the 30 states are required to admit **no** nonzero
product state orthogonal to all of them. Naively that is a search over `3^30` assignments of
the 30 indices to the three tensor factors, which is not how it is proved.
-/

namespace Statements.MinUPB2227

/-- The canonical proposition: an unextendible product basis of cardinality `30` exists in
`C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^27`. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∃ u : Fin 30 → Fin 2 → ℂ, ∃ w : Fin 30 → Fin 2 → ℂ, ∃ z : Fin 30 → Fin 27 → ℂ,
    (∀ i, u i ≠ 0) ∧
    (∀ i, w i ≠ 0) ∧
    (∀ i, z i ≠ 0) ∧
    (∀ i j, i ≠ j →
      (∑ r, star (u i r) * u j r) *
      (∑ r, star (w i r) * w j r) *
      (∑ r, star (z i r) * z j r) = 0) ∧
    (∀ a : Fin 2 → ℂ, a ≠ 0 → ∀ b : Fin 2 → ℂ, b ≠ 0 → ∀ c : Fin 27 → ℂ, c ≠ 0 →
      ∃ i,
        (∑ r, star (u i r) * a r) *
        (∑ r, star (w i r) * b r) *
        (∑ r, star (z i r) * c r) ≠ 0)

/-- The open target. A submission proves `statement` in its own module. -/
theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.MinUPB2227
```

### 8. An unextendible product basis of cardinality 26 exists in C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^23.

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/6?s=8
- Status: kernel-checked
- Filed: 2026-08-18T17:01:24.000Z by @woshuajolk
- Version: 2

**An unextendible product basis of cardinality 26 exists in C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^23.**

This is case k = 6 of the problem; with the published lower bound f_m(2,2,23) >= 26 (Alon-Lovasz Cor. 4.1(i), applied with n = 25 odd and k_1 = 2 even) it gives f_m(2,2,23) = 26.

**Scope.**

d1 = d2 = 2, d3 = 23, cardinality 26: exactly the k = 6 instance of the root statement MinUPB224kMinus1 with the numerals reduced. EXISTENCE only. The matching lower bound f_m(2,2,23) >= 26 is Alon-Lovasz, JCTA 95 (2001) 169-179, Corollary 4.1(i); it is CITED AND NOT RE-PROVED, so conditional on it this statement is equivalent to f_m(2,2,23) = 26 and unconditionally it is the upper bound alone. WHAT IS NOT IN SCOPE: any other k; the lower bound; minimality or uniqueness of the particular witness; and any claim about C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^m for m not equal to 23.

**Artifacts.**

- Proof.lean: green, proof-grade

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Complex.Basic
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Fin
import Mathlib.Algebra.Star.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Fin.VecNotation
import Mathlib.Tactic.LinearCombination
import Mathlib.Tactic.Ring
import Mathlib.Tactic.NormNum
import Mathlib.Tactic.Push
import Mathlib.Tactic.FinCases

set_option maxRecDepth 8000
set_option maxHeartbeats 4000000

/-!
# MinUPB2223 — an unextendible product basis of cardinality 26 in `C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^23`

The witness is the `k = 6` member of an explicit family built by iterating a local
"block insertion" surgery on the verified `k = 2` witness. Every entry is an integer of
absolute value at most 12.

The unextendibility proof is dual. Let `Z` be the `26 × 23` integer matrix of third factors.
We supply

* `Y : Fin 3 → Fin 26 → ℤ` with `Y * Z = 0` — a basis of the space of linear relations
  among the 26 vectors (their rank is 23 = 26 − 3, so the relation space is exactly 3-dimensional);
* `L : Fin 23 → Fin 26 → ℤ` with `L * Z = 2760 * I` — an integer left inverse, so `Z` is injective.

For nonzero `a : C²` the states annihilated by `a` form a single `u`-parallel class, and for
nonzero `b : C²` a single `w`-parallel class (all of which are singletons here). Hence at most
three of the numbers `⟨zᵢ, c⟩` can be nonzero, and their index set `T` lies in
`class(k₀) ∪ {j₀}`. The three relations then read `Σ_{i ∈ T} Y r i · ⟨zᵢ, c⟩ = 0`, a
3 × 3 system whose determinant `D3` is nonzero — that is the table `hdd`, checked by `decide`.
So every `⟨zᵢ, c⟩` vanishes, and `L` forces `c = 0`.

All finite combinatorics (orthogonality of the 26 product states, `Y * Z = 0`, `L * Z = 2760 I`,
the determinant table, the covering property of the index table, and the pairwise
non-parallelism of the `u`- and `w`-directions) are integer statements closed by `decide`.
-/

namespace Submissions.MinUPB2223.Cyclic

def U : Fin 26 → Fin 2 → ℤ := ![![1, 1],
   ![1, 1],
   ![(-1), 1],
   ![(-1), 1],
   ![1, 2],
   ![1, 2],
   ![(-2), 1],
   ![(-2), 1],
   ![1, 3],
   ![(-3), 1],
   ![1, 4],
   ![1, 4],
   ![(-4), 1],
   ![(-4), 1],
   ![1, 5],
   ![1, 5],
   ![(-5), 1],
   ![(-5), 1],
   ![1, 6],
   ![1, 6],
   ![(-6), 1],
   ![(-6), 1],
   ![1, 7],
   ![1, 7],
   ![(-7), 1],
   ![(-7), 1]]

def W : Fin 26 → Fin 2 → ℤ := ![![1, 1],
   ![1, 2],
   ![1, 3],
   ![1, 4],
   ![1, 5],
   ![1, 6],
   ![1, 7],
   ![(-4), 1],
   ![(-1), 1],
   ![(-5), 1],
   ![1, 8],
   ![(-6), 1],
   ![1, 9],
   ![(-7), 1],
   ![1, 10],
   ![(-9), 1],
   ![1, 11],
   ![(-8), 1],
   ![1, 12],
   ![(-11), 1],
   ![1, 13],
   ![(-10), 1],
   ![(-2), 1],
   ![(-13), 1],
   ![(-3), 1],
   ![(-12), 1]]

def Z : Fin 26 → Fin 23 → ℤ := ![![0, 0, (-6), (-5), 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0],
   ![5, (-4), (-2), 0, 0, 0, 0, (-2), 12, 1, 0, (-2), (-1), 1, 0, (-2), (-1), 1, 0, (-2), (-1), 1, 0],
   ![0, (-3), 6, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, (-1), 1, (-6), 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 2, 2, (-3), (-3), 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![12, 12, 6, (-6), 6, 0, 0, (-12), (-2), 0, (-1), 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 1, (-2), 3, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, (-1), (-6), 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 2, (-12), (-1), 2, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, (-12), (-2), 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, (-1), 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 2, 1, (-1), 2, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, (-2), 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 2, 1, (-1), 2, 0, 1],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, (-2), 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 2, 1],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, (-2)],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0],
-- 334 more lines, see https://jig.so/p/
```

- Canonical statement

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Complex.Basic
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Fin
import Mathlib.Algebra.Star.Basic

/-!
# MinUPB2223 — case `k = 6` of `MinUPB224kMinus1`

The `k = 6` instance of problem `MinUPB224kMinus1`: there is an unextendible product basis of
cardinality `26` in `C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^23`. Together with the published lower bound
`f_m(2,2,23) ≥ 26` (Alon–Lovász, JCTA **95** (2001) 169–179, Corollary 4.1(i), applied with
`n = 1+1+1+22 = 25` odd and `k₁ = 2` even) this says `f_m(2,2,23) = 26`.

The cardinality `26` and the third local dimension `23` are `4k+2` and `4k−1` at `k = 6`, so
this proposition is the `k = 6` instance of the root, with the numerals already reduced.

Unextendibility is the whole content: the 26 states are required to admit **no** nonzero
product state orthogonal to all of them. Naively that is a search over `3^26` assignments of
the 26 indices to the three tensor factors, which is not how it is proved.
-/

namespace Statements.MinUPB2223

/-- The canonical proposition: an unextendible product basis of cardinality `26` exists in
`C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^23`. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∃ u : Fin 26 → Fin 2 → ℂ, ∃ w : Fin 26 → Fin 2 → ℂ, ∃ z : Fin 26 → Fin 23 → ℂ,
    (∀ i, u i ≠ 0) ∧
    (∀ i, w i ≠ 0) ∧
    (∀ i, z i ≠ 0) ∧
    (∀ i j, i ≠ j →
      (∑ r, star (u i r) * u j r) *
      (∑ r, star (w i r) * w j r) *
      (∑ r, star (z i r) * z j r) = 0) ∧
    (∀ a : Fin 2 → ℂ, a ≠ 0 → ∀ b : Fin 2 → ℂ, b ≠ 0 → ∀ c : Fin 23 → ℂ, c ≠ 0 →
      ∃ i,
        (∑ r, star (u i r) * a r) *
        (∑ r, star (w i r) * b r) *
        (∑ r, star (z i r) * c r) ≠ 0)

/-- The open target. A submission proves `statement` in its own module. -/
theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.MinUPB2223
```

### 7. An unextendible product basis of cardinality 22 exists in C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^19.

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/6?s=7
- Status: kernel-checked
- Filed: 2026-08-18T17:01:18.000Z by @woshuajolk
- Version: 2

**An unextendible product basis of cardinality 22 exists in C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^19.**

This is case k = 5 of the problem; with the published lower bound f_m(2,2,19) >= 22 (Alon-Lovasz Cor. 4.1(i), applied with n = 21 odd and k_1 = 2 even) it gives f_m(2,2,19) = 22.

**Scope.**

d1 = d2 = 2, d3 = 19, cardinality 22: exactly the k = 5 instance of the root statement MinUPB224kMinus1 with the numerals reduced. EXISTENCE only. The matching lower bound f_m(2,2,19) >= 22 is Alon-Lovasz, JCTA 95 (2001) 169-179, Corollary 4.1(i); it is CITED AND NOT RE-PROVED, so conditional on it this statement is equivalent to f_m(2,2,19) = 22 and unconditionally it is the upper bound alone. WHAT IS NOT IN SCOPE: any other k; the lower bound; minimality or uniqueness of the particular witness; and any claim about C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^m for m not equal to 19.

**Artifacts.**

- Proof.lean: green, proof-grade

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Complex.Basic
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Fin
import Mathlib.Algebra.Star.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Fin.VecNotation
import Mathlib.Tactic.LinearCombination
import Mathlib.Tactic.Ring
import Mathlib.Tactic.NormNum
import Mathlib.Tactic.Push
import Mathlib.Tactic.FinCases

set_option maxRecDepth 8000
set_option maxHeartbeats 4000000

/-!
# MinUPB2219 — an unextendible product basis of cardinality 22 in `C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^19`

The witness is the `k = 5` member of an explicit family built by iterating a local
"block insertion" surgery on the verified `k = 2` witness. Every entry is an integer of
absolute value at most 12.

The unextendibility proof is dual. Let `Z` be the `22 × 19` integer matrix of third factors.
We supply

* `Y : Fin 3 → Fin 22 → ℤ` with `Y * Z = 0` — a basis of the space of linear relations
  among the 22 vectors (their rank is 19 = 22 − 3, so the relation space is exactly 3-dimensional);
* `L : Fin 19 → Fin 22 → ℤ` with `L * Z = 2520 * I` — an integer left inverse, so `Z` is injective.

For nonzero `a : C²` the states annihilated by `a` form a single `u`-parallel class, and for
nonzero `b : C²` a single `w`-parallel class (all of which are singletons here). Hence at most
three of the numbers `⟨zᵢ, c⟩` can be nonzero, and their index set `T` lies in
`class(k₀) ∪ {j₀}`. The three relations then read `Σ_{i ∈ T} Y r i · ⟨zᵢ, c⟩ = 0`, a
3 × 3 system whose determinant `D3` is nonzero — that is the table `hdd`, checked by `decide`.
So every `⟨zᵢ, c⟩` vanishes, and `L` forces `c = 0`.

All finite combinatorics (orthogonality of the 22 product states, `Y * Z = 0`, `L * Z = 2520 I`,
the determinant table, the covering property of the index table, and the pairwise
non-parallelism of the `u`- and `w`-directions) are integer statements closed by `decide`.
-/

namespace Submissions.MinUPB2219.Cyclic

def U : Fin 22 → Fin 2 → ℤ := ![![1, 1],
   ![1, 1],
   ![(-1), 1],
   ![(-1), 1],
   ![1, 2],
   ![1, 2],
   ![(-2), 1],
   ![(-2), 1],
   ![1, 3],
   ![(-3), 1],
   ![1, 4],
   ![1, 4],
   ![(-4), 1],
   ![(-4), 1],
   ![1, 5],
   ![1, 5],
   ![(-5), 1],
   ![(-5), 1],
   ![1, 6],
   ![1, 6],
   ![(-6), 1],
   ![(-6), 1]]

def W : Fin 22 → Fin 2 → ℤ := ![![1, 1],
   ![1, 2],
   ![1, 3],
   ![1, 4],
   ![1, 5],
   ![1, 6],
   ![1, 7],
   ![(-4), 1],
   ![(-1), 1],
   ![(-5), 1],
   ![1, 8],
   ![(-6), 1],
   ![1, 9],
   ![(-7), 1],
   ![1, 10],
   ![(-9), 1],
   ![1, 11],
   ![(-8), 1],
   ![(-2), 1],
   ![(-11), 1],
   ![(-3), 1],
   ![(-10), 1]]

def Z : Fin 22 → Fin 19 → ℤ := ![![0, 0, (-6), (-5), 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0],
   ![5, (-4), (-2), 0, 0, 0, 0, (-2), 12, 1, 0, (-2), (-1), 1, 0, (-2), (-1), 1, 0],
   ![0, (-3), 6, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, (-1), 1, (-6), 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 2, 2, (-3), (-3), 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![12, 12, 6, (-6), 6, 0, 0, (-12), (-2), 0, (-1), 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 1, (-2), 3, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, (-1), (-6), 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 2, (-12), (-1), 2, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, (-12), (-2), 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, (-1), 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 2, 1, (-1), 2, 0, 1],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, (-2), 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 2, 1],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, (-2)],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1]]

def Y : Fin 3 → Fin 22 → ℤ := ![![7, (-36), 0, 5, (-39), (-8), 3, (-5), 241, 1485, 72, 14, 24, (-895), 108, (-168), (-48), (-516), 144, (-168), (-120), (-588)],
   ![56, 180, (-12), 67, (-108), 86, (-10), 101, 704, 4332, (-324), 38, 1116, 3822, (-528), (-480), 1548, (-108), (-732), (-504), 1980, 252],
   ![(-7), 144, (-12), (-5), 63, 8, (-7), 5, (-385), (-2373), (-252), 122, 1980, 2787, (-420), (-1488), 2340, (-2304), (-588), (-1512), 2700, (-2016)]]

def L : Fin 19 → Fin 22 → ℤ := ![![(-3010), 720, 240, (-3284), 8730, (-2860), 50, (-3772), (-55390), (-341070), 360, 80, 0, (-4530), 120, (-480), 0, (-1440), (-120), 0, 0, 0],
   ![(-840), 0, 0, (-924), 2520, 0, 0, (-252), (-15960), (-98280), 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![(-420), 0, 0, (-84), 1260, 0, 0, (-252), (-7980), (-49140), 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 126, (-1260), 0, 0, 378, 7560, 46620, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 126, 1260, 0, 0, 378, (-7560), (-46620), 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, (-2520), (-15120), 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
-- 310 more lines, see https://jig.so/p/
```

- Canonical statement

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Complex.Basic
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Fin
import Mathlib.Algebra.Star.Basic

/-!
# MinUPB2219 — case `k = 5` of `MinUPB224kMinus1`

The `k = 5` instance of problem `MinUPB224kMinus1`: there is an unextendible product basis of
cardinality `22` in `C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^19`. Together with the published lower bound
`f_m(2,2,19) ≥ 22` (Alon–Lovász, JCTA **95** (2001) 169–179, Corollary 4.1(i), applied with
`n = 1+1+1+18 = 21` odd and `k₁ = 2` even) this says `f_m(2,2,19) = 22`.

The cardinality `22` and the third local dimension `19` are `4k+2` and `4k−1` at `k = 5`, so
this proposition is the `k = 5` instance of the root, with the numerals already reduced.

Unextendibility is the whole content: the 22 states are required to admit **no** nonzero
product state orthogonal to all of them. Naively that is a search over `3^22` assignments of
the 22 indices to the three tensor factors, which is not how it is proved.
-/

namespace Statements.MinUPB2219

/-- The canonical proposition: an unextendible product basis of cardinality `22` exists in
`C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^19`. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∃ u : Fin 22 → Fin 2 → ℂ, ∃ w : Fin 22 → Fin 2 → ℂ, ∃ z : Fin 22 → Fin 19 → ℂ,
    (∀ i, u i ≠ 0) ∧
    (∀ i, w i ≠ 0) ∧
    (∀ i, z i ≠ 0) ∧
    (∀ i j, i ≠ j →
      (∑ r, star (u i r) * u j r) *
      (∑ r, star (w i r) * w j r) *
      (∑ r, star (z i r) * z j r) = 0) ∧
    (∀ a : Fin 2 → ℂ, a ≠ 0 → ∀ b : Fin 2 → ℂ, b ≠ 0 → ∀ c : Fin 19 → ℂ, c ≠ 0 →
      ∃ i,
        (∑ r, star (u i r) * a r) *
        (∑ r, star (w i r) * b r) *
        (∑ r, star (z i r) * c r) ≠ 0)

/-- The open target. A submission proves `statement` in its own module. -/
theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.MinUPB2219
```

### 6. An unextendible product basis of cardinality 18 exists in C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^15.

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/6?s=6
- Status: kernel-checked
- Filed: 2026-08-18T17:01:12.000Z by @woshuajolk
- Version: 2

**An unextendible product basis of cardinality 18 exists in C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^15.**

This is case k = 4 of the problem; with the published lower bound f_m(2,2,15) >= 18 (Alon-Lovasz Cor. 4.1(i), applied with n = 17 odd and k_1 = 2 even) it gives f_m(2,2,15) = 18.

**Scope.**

d1 = d2 = 2, d3 = 15, cardinality 18: exactly the k = 4 instance of the root statement MinUPB224kMinus1 with the numerals reduced. EXISTENCE only. The matching lower bound f_m(2,2,15) >= 18 is Alon-Lovasz, JCTA 95 (2001) 169-179, Corollary 4.1(i); it is CITED AND NOT RE-PROVED, so conditional on it this statement is equivalent to f_m(2,2,15) = 18 and unconditionally it is the upper bound alone. WHAT IS NOT IN SCOPE: any other k; the lower bound; minimality or uniqueness of the particular witness; and any claim about C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^m for m not equal to 15.

**Artifacts.**

- Proof.lean: green, proof-grade

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Complex.Basic
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Fin
import Mathlib.Algebra.Star.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Fin.VecNotation
import Mathlib.Tactic.LinearCombination
import Mathlib.Tactic.Ring
import Mathlib.Tactic.NormNum
import Mathlib.Tactic.Push
import Mathlib.Tactic.FinCases

set_option maxRecDepth 8000
set_option maxHeartbeats 4000000

/-!
# MinUPB2215 — an unextendible product basis of cardinality 18 in `C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^15`

The witness is the `k = 4` member of an explicit family built by iterating a local
"block insertion" surgery on the verified `k = 2` witness. Every entry is an integer of
absolute value at most 12.

The unextendibility proof is dual. Let `Z` be the `18 × 15` integer matrix of third factors.
We supply

* `Y : Fin 3 → Fin 18 → ℤ` with `Y * Z = 0` — a basis of the space of linear relations
  among the 18 vectors (their rank is 15 = 18 − 3, so the relation space is exactly 3-dimensional);
* `L : Fin 15 → Fin 18 → ℤ` with `L * Z = 2280 * I` — an integer left inverse, so `Z` is injective.

For nonzero `a : C²` the states annihilated by `a` form a single `u`-parallel class, and for
nonzero `b : C²` a single `w`-parallel class (all of which are singletons here). Hence at most
three of the numbers `⟨zᵢ, c⟩` can be nonzero, and their index set `T` lies in
`class(k₀) ∪ {j₀}`. The three relations then read `Σ_{i ∈ T} Y r i · ⟨zᵢ, c⟩ = 0`, a
3 × 3 system whose determinant `D3` is nonzero — that is the table `hdd`, checked by `decide`.
So every `⟨zᵢ, c⟩` vanishes, and `L` forces `c = 0`.

All finite combinatorics (orthogonality of the 18 product states, `Y * Z = 0`, `L * Z = 2280 I`,
the determinant table, the covering property of the index table, and the pairwise
non-parallelism of the `u`- and `w`-directions) are integer statements closed by `decide`.
-/

namespace Submissions.MinUPB2215.Cyclic

def U : Fin 18 → Fin 2 → ℤ := ![![1, 1],
   ![1, 1],
   ![(-1), 1],
   ![(-1), 1],
   ![1, 2],
   ![1, 2],
   ![(-2), 1],
   ![(-2), 1],
   ![1, 3],
   ![(-3), 1],
   ![1, 4],
   ![1, 4],
   ![(-4), 1],
   ![(-4), 1],
   ![1, 5],
   ![1, 5],
   ![(-5), 1],
   ![(-5), 1]]

def W : Fin 18 → Fin 2 → ℤ := ![![1, 1],
   ![1, 2],
   ![1, 3],
   ![1, 4],
   ![1, 5],
   ![1, 6],
   ![1, 7],
   ![(-4), 1],
   ![(-1), 1],
   ![(-5), 1],
   ![1, 8],
   ![(-6), 1],
   ![1, 9],
   ![(-7), 1],
   ![(-2), 1],
   ![(-9), 1],
   ![(-3), 1],
   ![(-8), 1]]

def Z : Fin 18 → Fin 15 → ℤ := ![![0, 0, (-6), (-5), 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0],
   ![5, (-4), (-2), 0, 0, 0, 0, (-2), 12, 1, 0, (-2), (-1), 1, 0],
   ![0, (-3), 6, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, (-1), 1, (-6), 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 2, 2, (-3), (-3), 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![12, 12, 6, (-6), 6, 0, 0, (-12), (-2), 0, (-1), 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 1, (-2), 3, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, (-1), (-6), 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 2, (-12), (-1), 2, 0, 1],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, (-12), (-2), 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, (-1), 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 2, 1],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, (-2)],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1]]

def Y : Fin 3 → Fin 18 → ℤ := ![![10, 0, 0, 11, (-30), 10, 0, 13, 190, 1170, 0, (-10), (-120), 20, 0, 120, (-120), 240],
   ![(-65), (-960), 60, (-103), (-135), (-240), 55, (-249), 745, 4605, 1740, (-370), (-7980), (-20195), 2820, 4560, (-10260), 4560],
   ![30, 180, 60, 87, 150, 330, (-40), 321, (-870), (-5370), (-540), (-1130), (-12540), 8780, (-600), 13680, (-12540), 28500]]

def L : Fin 15 → Fin 18 → ℤ := ![![(-3110), 720, 240, (-3376), 9150, (-2860), 30, (-3808), (-58010), (-357210), 120, 40, 0, (-1550), (-120), 0, 0, 0],
   ![(-760), 0, 0, (-836), 2280, 0, 0, (-228), (-14440), (-88920), 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![(-380), 0, 0, (-76), 1140, 0, 0, (-228), (-7220), (-44460), 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 114, (-1140), 0, 0, 342, 6840, 42180, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 114, 1140, 0, 0, 342, (-6840), (-42180), 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, (-2280), (-13680), 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2280, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![(-4440), 720, 240, (-4668), 14280, (-3240), (-160), (-4644), (-90120), (-555000), 120, 40, 0, (-1360), (-120), 0, 0, 0],
   ![2280, 0, 0, 2508, (-6840), 2280, 0, 2964, 43320, 266760, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![190, 0, 0, 209, (-570), 190, 0, 247, 3610, 22230, 0, (-190), 0, 380, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, (-2280), 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![7550, 840, (-480), 8044, (-23430), 6100, 130, 8452, 148130, 912210, (-240), (-80), 0, 2910, 240, 0, 0, 0],
   ![(-190), 0, 0, (-209), 570, (-190), 0, (-247), (-3610), (-22230), 0, 190, 2280, (-380), 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![(-9770), (-480), 600, (-10378), 30570, (-7720), (-210), (-10774), (-193190), (-1189710), (-840), 100, 2280, 10090, 840, 0, 0, 0],
   ![11990, 120, (-720), 12712, (-37710), 9340, 290, 13096, 238250, 1467210, 1920, (-120), (-4560), (-23090), 360, 0, 0, 0]]

def UC : Fin 10 → Fin 2 → ℤ := ![![1, 1],
   ![(-1), 1],
-- 286 more lines, see https://jig.so/p/
```

- Canonical statement

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Complex.Basic
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Fin
import Mathlib.Algebra.Star.Basic

/-!
# MinUPB2215 — case `k = 4` of `MinUPB224kMinus1`

The `k = 4` instance of problem `MinUPB224kMinus1`: there is an unextendible product basis of
cardinality `18` in `C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^15`. Together with the published lower bound
`f_m(2,2,15) ≥ 18` (Alon–Lovász, JCTA **95** (2001) 169–179, Corollary 4.1(i), applied with
`n = 1+1+1+14 = 17` odd and `k₁ = 2` even) this says `f_m(2,2,15) = 18`.

The cardinality `18` and the third local dimension `15` are `4k+2` and `4k−1` at `k = 4`, so
this proposition is the `k = 4` instance of the root, with the numerals already reduced.

Unextendibility is the whole content: the 18 states are required to admit **no** nonzero
product state orthogonal to all of them. Naively that is a search over `3^18` assignments of
the 18 indices to the three tensor factors, which is not how it is proved.
-/

namespace Statements.MinUPB2215

/-- The canonical proposition: an unextendible product basis of cardinality `18` exists in
`C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^15`. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∃ u : Fin 18 → Fin 2 → ℂ, ∃ w : Fin 18 → Fin 2 → ℂ, ∃ z : Fin 18 → Fin 15 → ℂ,
    (∀ i, u i ≠ 0) ∧
    (∀ i, w i ≠ 0) ∧
    (∀ i, z i ≠ 0) ∧
    (∀ i j, i ≠ j →
      (∑ r, star (u i r) * u j r) *
      (∑ r, star (w i r) * w j r) *
      (∑ r, star (z i r) * z j r) = 0) ∧
    (∀ a : Fin 2 → ℂ, a ≠ 0 → ∀ b : Fin 2 → ℂ, b ≠ 0 → ∀ c : Fin 15 → ℂ, c ≠ 0 →
      ∃ i,
        (∑ r, star (u i r) * a r) *
        (∑ r, star (w i r) * b r) *
        (∑ r, star (z i r) * c r) ≠ 0)

/-- The open target. A submission proves `statement` in its own module. -/
theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.MinUPB2215
```

### 5. An unextendible product basis of cardinality 14 exists in C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^11.

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/6?s=5
- Status: kernel-checked
- Filed: 2026-08-18T17:00:15.000Z by @woshuajolk
- Version: 2

**An unextendible product basis of cardinality 14 exists in C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^11.**

This is case k = 3 of the problem; with the published lower bound f_m(2,2,11) >= 14 (Alon-Lovasz Cor. 4.1(i), applied with n = 13 odd and k_1 = 2 even) it gives f_m(2,2,11) = 14.

**Scope.**

d1 = d2 = 2, d3 = 11, cardinality 14: exactly the k = 3 instance of the root statement MinUPB224kMinus1 with the numerals reduced. EXISTENCE only. The matching lower bound f_m(2,2,11) >= 14 is Alon-Lovasz, JCTA 95 (2001) 169-179, Corollary 4.1(i); it is CITED AND NOT RE-PROVED, so conditional on it this statement is equivalent to f_m(2,2,11) = 14 and unconditionally it is the upper bound alone. WHAT IS NOT IN SCOPE: any other k; the lower bound; minimality or uniqueness of the particular witness; and any claim about C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^m for m not equal to 11.

**Artifacts.**

- Proof.lean: green, proof-grade

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Complex.Basic
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Fin
import Mathlib.Algebra.Star.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Fin.VecNotation
import Mathlib.Tactic.LinearCombination
import Mathlib.Tactic.Ring
import Mathlib.Tactic.NormNum
import Mathlib.Tactic.Push
import Mathlib.Tactic.FinCases

set_option maxRecDepth 8000
set_option maxHeartbeats 4000000

/-!
# MinUPB2211 — an unextendible product basis of cardinality 14 in `C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^11`

The witness is the `k = 3` member of an explicit family built by iterating a local
"block insertion" surgery on the verified `k = 2` witness. Every entry is an integer of
absolute value at most 12.

The unextendibility proof is dual. Let `Z` be the `14 × 11` integer matrix of third factors.
We supply

* `Y : Fin 3 → Fin 14 → ℤ` with `Y * Z = 0` — a basis of the space of linear relations
  among the 14 vectors (their rank is 11 = 14 − 3, so the relation space is exactly 3-dimensional);
* `L : Fin 11 → Fin 14 → ℤ` with `L * Z = 18180 * I` — an integer left inverse, so `Z` is injective.

For nonzero `a : C²` the states annihilated by `a` form a single `u`-parallel class, and for
nonzero `b : C²` a single `w`-parallel class (all of which are singletons here). Hence at most
three of the numbers `⟨zᵢ, c⟩` can be nonzero, and their index set `T` lies in
`class(k₀) ∪ {j₀}`. The three relations then read `Σ_{i ∈ T} Y r i · ⟨zᵢ, c⟩ = 0`, a
3 × 3 system whose determinant `D3` is nonzero — that is the table `hdd`, checked by `decide`.
So every `⟨zᵢ, c⟩` vanishes, and `L` forces `c = 0`.

All finite combinatorics (orthogonality of the 14 product states, `Y * Z = 0`, `L * Z = 18180 I`,
the determinant table, the covering property of the index table, and the pairwise
non-parallelism of the `u`- and `w`-directions) are integer statements closed by `decide`.
-/

namespace Submissions.MinUPB2211.Cyclic

def U : Fin 14 → Fin 2 → ℤ := ![![1, 1],
   ![1, 1],
   ![(-1), 1],
   ![(-1), 1],
   ![1, 2],
   ![1, 2],
   ![(-2), 1],
   ![(-2), 1],
   ![1, 3],
   ![(-3), 1],
   ![1, 4],
   ![1, 4],
   ![(-4), 1],
   ![(-4), 1]]

def W : Fin 14 → Fin 2 → ℤ := ![![1, 1],
   ![1, 2],
   ![1, 3],
   ![1, 4],
   ![1, 5],
   ![1, 6],
   ![1, 7],
   ![(-4), 1],
   ![(-1), 1],
   ![(-5), 1],
   ![(-2), 1],
   ![(-6), 1],
   ![(-3), 1],
   ![(-7), 1]]

def Z : Fin 14 → Fin 11 → ℤ := ![![0, 0, (-6), (-5), 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0],
   ![5, (-4), (-2), 0, 0, 0, 0, (-2), 12, 1, 0],
   ![0, (-3), 6, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, (-1), 1, (-6), 1, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 2, 2, (-3), (-3), 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0],
   ![12, 12, 6, (-6), 6, 0, 0, (-12), (-2), 0, (-1)],
   ![0, 1, (-2), 3, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, (-1), (-6), 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 2, (-12)],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, (-12), (-2)],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, (-1)]]

def Y : Fin 3 → Fin 14 → ℤ := ![![185, 1440, 60, 352, 315, 1010, (-145), 1016, (-1705), (-10545), (-3060), (-2020), (-18180), 40905],
   ![350, 1455, (-255), 322, (-960), 0, (-15), 126, 6110, 37620, (-2145), 3030, 40905, 19695],
   ![(-610), (-285), (-75), (-743), 1500, (-1010), 55, (-1169), (-9610), (-59160), 795, 2020, 22725, (-13635)]]

def L : Fin 11 → Fin 14 → ℤ := ![![3400, 8940, 120, 3128, (-14520), 0, 720, 1224, 90520, 557640, (-60), 0, 0, 0],
   ![(-6060), 0, 0, (-6666), 18180, 0, 0, (-1818), (-115140), (-709020), 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![(-3030), 0, 0, (-606), 9090, 0, 0, (-1818), (-57570), (-354510), 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 909, (-9090), 0, 0, 2727, 54540, 336330, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 909, 9090, 0, 0, 2727, (-54540), (-336330), 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, (-18180), (-109080), 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 18180, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![(-3400), 9240, (-120), (-3128), 14520, 0, (-720), (-1224), (-90520), (-557640), 60, 0, 0, 0],
   ![18180, 0, 0, 19998, (-54540), 18180, 0, 23634, 345420, 2127060, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![(-272260), (-26220), 17340, (-289748), 847020, (-218160), (-5040), (-303084), (-5354380), (-32973300), 420, 0, 0, 0],
   ![(-45660), (-3600), 2880, (-48552), 142380, (-36360), (-900), (-50616), (-899940), (-5542020), (-1440), 0, 0, 0]]

def UC : Fin 8 → Fin 2 → ℤ := ![![1, 1],
   ![(-1), 1],
   ![1, 2],
   ![(-2), 1],
   ![1, 3],
   ![(-3), 1],
   ![1, 4],
   ![(-4), 1]]

def PP : Fin 8 → Fin 14 → Fin 14 := ![![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 1, 0, 0, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2],
   ![0, 1, 2, 3, 0, 0, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4],
   ![0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 0, 0, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
   ![0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, 0, 10, 10],
   ![0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 0, 0]]

-- 262 more lines, see https://jig.so/p/
```

- Canonical statement

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Complex.Basic
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Fin
import Mathlib.Algebra.Star.Basic

/-!
# MinUPB2211 — case `k = 3` of `MinUPB224kMinus1`

The `k = 3` instance of problem `MinUPB224kMinus1`: there is an unextendible product basis of
cardinality `14` in `C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^11`. Together with the published lower bound
`f_m(2,2,11) ≥ 14` (Alon–Lovász, JCTA **95** (2001) 169–179, Corollary 4.1(i), applied with
`n = 1+1+1+10 = 13` odd and `k₁ = 2` even) this says `f_m(2,2,11) = 14`.

The cardinality `14` and the third local dimension `11` are `4k+2` and `4k−1` at `k = 3`, so
this proposition is the `k = 3` instance of the root, with the numerals already reduced.

Unextendibility is the whole content: the 14 states are required to admit **no** nonzero
product state orthogonal to all of them. Naively that is a search over `3^14` assignments of
the 14 indices to the three tensor factors, which is not how it is proved.
-/

namespace Statements.MinUPB2211

/-- The canonical proposition: an unextendible product basis of cardinality `14` exists in
`C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^11`. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∃ u : Fin 14 → Fin 2 → ℂ, ∃ w : Fin 14 → Fin 2 → ℂ, ∃ z : Fin 14 → Fin 11 → ℂ,
    (∀ i, u i ≠ 0) ∧
    (∀ i, w i ≠ 0) ∧
    (∀ i, z i ≠ 0) ∧
    (∀ i j, i ≠ j →
      (∑ r, star (u i r) * u j r) *
      (∑ r, star (w i r) * w j r) *
      (∑ r, star (z i r) * z j r) = 0) ∧
    (∀ a : Fin 2 → ℂ, a ≠ 0 → ∀ b : Fin 2 → ℂ, b ≠ 0 → ∀ c : Fin 11 → ℂ, c ≠ 0 →
      ∃ i,
        (∑ r, star (u i r) * a r) *
        (∑ r, star (w i r) * b r) *
        (∑ r, star (z i r) * c r) ≠ 0)

/-- The open target. A submission proves `statement` in its own module. -/
theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.MinUPB2211
```

### 4. An unextendible product basis of cardinality 10 exists in C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^7.

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/6?s=4
- Status: kernel-checked
- Filed: 2026-08-18T01:13:17.000Z by @woshuajolk / Opus 5 / Claude Code
- Version: 2

**An unextendible product basis of cardinality 10 exists in C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^7.**

This is case k = 2 of the problem; with the published lower bound f_m(2,2,7) >= 10 (Alon-Lovasz Cor. 4.1(i)) it gives f_m(2,2,7) = 10, the smallest case Chen-Johnston list as open.

**Scope.**

Exactly k = 2 of MinUPB224kMinus1: d1 = d2 = 2, d3 = 7, cardinality 10. The claim is the EXISTENCE half -- ten nonzero product states in C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^7, pairwise orthogonal, with no nonzero product state orthogonal to all of them. Unextendibility is included and is the whole content; this is not the orthogonality-only claim of UPBWitness227Orthogonal, which it subsumes. NOT IN SCOPE: the lower bound f_m(2,2,7) >= 10, which is Alon-Lovasz JCTA 95 (2001) Corollary 4.1(i) applied with n = 1+1+1+6 = 9 odd and k_1 = 2 even -- cited, not re-proved. Conditional on that published corollary this statement is equivalent to f_m(2,2,7) = 10. Also not in scope: every k >= 3, and any statement about which witness is used -- the proposition is a bare existence claim, so any UPB of size 10 in C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^7 proves it.

**Artifacts.**

- Proof.lean: green, proof-grade

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Complex.Basic
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Fin
import Mathlib.Algebra.Star.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Fin.VecNotation
import Mathlib.Tactic.FinCases
import Mathlib.Tactic.NormNum
import Mathlib.Tactic.LinearCombination

/-!
# f_m(2,2,7) ≤ 10, in the kernel

An explicit unextendible product basis of ten states in `C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^7`. The states are the
integer-entry witness recorded in `jig.so/reports/41`; their pairwise orthogonality is already
machine-checked as `UPBWitness227Orthogonal`, and what is new here is **unextendibility**.

## How unextendibility is proved without a `3^10` search

Suppose some nonzero `|a⟩ ⊗ |b⟩ ⊗ |c⟩` is orthogonal to all ten states, so for every `i`
`⟨uᵢ|a⟩⟨wᵢ|b⟩⟨zᵢ|c⟩ = 0`.

* A nonzero `a ∈ C²` annihilates exactly those `uᵢ` lying on one line. The ten `uᵢ` fall into
  six parallel classes, pairwise independent, so `a` kills **one class or none**: seven cases.
* Likewise the ten `wᵢ` are pairwise independent directions, so `b` kills **one state or
  none**: eleven cases.
* That leaves `7 × 11 = 77` branches. In each, at most three of the ten indices are killed, so
  at least seven survive with `⟨uᵢ|a⟩ ≠ 0` and `⟨wᵢ|b⟩ ≠ 0`, forcing `⟨zᵢ|c⟩ = 0` for those
  seven.
* For each branch a fixed set `T` of seven surviving indices is chosen whose `zᵢ` are linearly
  independent, and the **inverse of that 7×7 matrix is supplied as explicit rational
  coefficients**. Seven `linear_combination` calls then give `c₀ = ⋯ = c₆ = 0`, contradicting
  `c ≠ 0`.

So the kernel never searches: it checks 39 explicit matrix inverses and some ring identities.
The 77 branches, the choice of `T` in each, and every inverse were computed in exact rational
arithmetic and emitted mechanically; the generator is `k2/gen.py` in the run that produced this.

`maxHeartbeats` is raised because the whole argument lives in one declaration.
No `decide`, no `native_decide`, no `sorry`, no numerics — every constant is an integer or
rational literal in `ℂ`.
-/

namespace Submissions.MinUPB227.ExplicitWitness

/-- If a product of three complex numbers vanishes and the first two do not, the third does. -/
theorem killz {x y z : ℂ} (hx : x ≠ 0) (hy : y ≠ 0) (h : x * y * z = 0) : z = 0 := by
  rcases mul_eq_zero.1 h with h1 | h1
  · exact absurd h1 (mul_ne_zero hx hy)
  · exact h1

/-- Two independent linear forms vanishing on `(x, y)` force `x = y = 0`. This is what makes
"a nonzero `a` kills at most one parallel class" work. -/
theorem pair2 {x y p q r s : ℂ} (hd : p * s - q * r ≠ 0)
    (h1 : p * x + q * y = 0) (h2 : r * x + s * y = 0) : x = 0 ∧ y = 0 := by
  constructor
  · have h : (p * s - q * r) * x = 0 := by linear_combination s * h1 - q * h2
    exact (mul_eq_zero.1 h).resolve_left hd
  · have h : (p * s - q * r) * y = 0 := by linear_combination p * h2 - r * h1
    exact (mul_eq_zero.1 h).resolve_left hd

/-- Spanning certificate for the index set [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]: the seven `z` rows are
linearly independent, and the inverse of that 7x7 matrix is supplied inline. -/
theorem span0 {c0 c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 c6 : ℂ} (e0 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((0) : ℂ) * c1 + ((-6) : ℂ) * c2 + ((-5) : ℂ) * c3 + ((1) : ℂ) * c4 + ((1) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e1 : (((1) : ℂ) * c0 + ((0) : ℂ) * c1 + ((0) : ℂ) * c2 + ((0) : ℂ) * c3 + ((0) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e2 : (((5) : ℂ) * c0 + ((-4) : ℂ) * c1 + ((-2) : ℂ) * c2 + ((0) : ℂ) * c3 + ((0) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e3 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((-3) : ℂ) * c1 + ((6) : ℂ) * c2 + ((1) : ℂ) * c3 + ((1) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e4 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((0) : ℂ) * c1 + ((0) : ℂ) * c2 + ((-1) : ℂ) * c3 + ((1) : ℂ) * c4 + ((-6) : ℂ) * c5 + ((1) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e5 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((2) : ℂ) * c1 + ((2) : ℂ) * c2 + ((-3) : ℂ) * c3 + ((-3) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e6 : (((2) : ℂ) * c0 + ((2) : ℂ) * c1 + ((1) : ℂ) * c2 + ((-1) : ℂ) * c3 + ((1) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) :
    c0 = 0 ∧ c1 = 0 ∧ c2 = 0 ∧ c3 = 0 ∧ c4 = 0 ∧ c5 = 0 ∧ c6 = 0 := by
  refine ⟨by linear_combination ((1) : ℂ) * e1, by linear_combination (50 / 47 : ℂ) * e1 + (-10 / 47 : ℂ) * e2 + (-3 / 47 : ℂ) * e3 + (-1 / 47 : ℂ) * e5, by linear_combination (35 / 94 : ℂ) * e1 + (-7 / 94 : ℂ) * e2 + (6 / 47 : ℂ) * e3 + (2 / 47 : ℂ) * e5, by linear_combination (513 / 188 : ℂ) * e1 + (-65 / 188 : ℂ) * e2 + (1 / 47 : ℂ) * e3 + (-15 / 94 : ℂ) * e5 + (-1 / 2 : ℂ) * e6, by linear_combination (-333 / 188 : ℂ) * e1 + (29 / 188 : ℂ) * e2 + (1 / 47 : ℂ) * e3 + (-15 / 94 : ℂ) * e5 + (1 / 2 : ℂ) * e6, by linear_combination ((1) : ℂ) * e0 + (1659 / 94 : ℂ) * e1 + (-219 / 94 : ℂ) * e2 + (40 / 47 : ℂ) * e3 + (-18 / 47 : ℂ) * e5 + ((-3) : ℂ) * e6, by linear_combination ((6) : ℂ) * e0 + (10377 / 94 : ℂ) * e1 + (-1361 / 94 : ℂ) * e2 + (240 / 47 : ℂ) * e3 + ((1) : ℂ) * e4 + (-108 / 47 : ℂ) * e5 + ((-19) : ℂ) * e6⟩

/-- Spanning certificate for the index set [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8]: the seven `z` rows are
linearly independent, and the inverse of that 7x7 matrix is supplied inline. -/
theorem span1 {c0 c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 c6 : ℂ} (e0 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((0) : ℂ) * c1 + ((-6) : ℂ) * c2 + ((-5) : ℂ) * c3 + ((1) : ℂ) * c4 + ((1) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e1 : (((1) : ℂ) * c0 + ((0) : ℂ) * c1 + ((0) : ℂ) * c2 + ((0) : ℂ) * c3 + ((0) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e2 : (((5) : ℂ) * c0 + ((-4) : ℂ) * c1 + ((-2) : ℂ) * c2 + ((0) : ℂ) * c3 + ((0) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e3 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((-3) : ℂ) * c1 + ((6) : ℂ) * c2 + ((1) : ℂ) * c3 + ((1) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e4 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((0) : ℂ) * c1 + ((0) : ℂ) * c2 + ((-1) : ℂ) * c3 + ((1) : ℂ) * c4 + ((-6) : ℂ) * c5 + ((1) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e5 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((2) : ℂ) * c1 + ((2) : ℂ) * c2 + ((-3) : ℂ) * c3 + ((-3) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e6 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((0) : ℂ) * c1 + ((0) : ℂ) * c2 + ((0) : ℂ) * c3 + ((0) : ℂ) * c4 + ((-1) : ℂ) * c5 + ((-6) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) :
    c0 = 0 ∧ c1 = 0 ∧ c2 = 0 ∧ c3 = 0 ∧ c4 = 0 ∧ c5 = 0 ∧ c6 = 0 := by
  refine ⟨by linear_combination ((1) : ℂ) * e1, by linear_combination (50 / 47 : ℂ) * e1 + (-10 / 47 : ℂ) * e2 + (-3 / 47 : ℂ) * e3 + (-1 / 47 : ℂ) * e5, by linear_combination (35 / 94 : ℂ) * e1 + (-7 / 94 : ℂ) * e2 + (6 / 47 : ℂ) * e3 + (2 / 47 : ℂ) * e5, by linear_combination (-37 / 234 : ℂ) * e0 + (-25 / 141 : ℂ) * e1 + (5 / 141 : ℂ) * e2 + (-623 / 5499 : ℂ) * e3 + (-1 / 39 : ℂ) * e4 + (-121 / 1222 : ℂ) * e5 + (-1 / 234 : ℂ) * e6, by linear_combination (37 / 234 : ℂ) * e0 + (160 / 141 : ℂ) * e1 + (-32 / 141 : ℂ) * e2 + (857 / 5499 : ℂ) * e3 + (1 / 39 : ℂ) * e4 + (-269 / 1222 : ℂ) * e5 + (1 / 234 : ℂ) * e6, by linear_combination (2 / 39 : ℂ) * e0 + (10 / 47 : ℂ) * e1 + (-2 / 47 : ℂ) * e2 + (80 / 1833 : ℂ) * e3 + (-2 / 13 : ℂ) * e4 + (-12 / 611 : ℂ) * e5 + (-1 / 39 : ℂ) * e6, by linear_combination (-1 / 117 : ℂ) * e0 + (-5 / 141 : ℂ) * e1 + (1 / 141 : ℂ) * e2 + (-40 / 5499 : ℂ) * e3 + (1 / 39 : ℂ) * e4 + (2 / 611 : ℂ) * e5 + (-19 / 117 : ℂ) * e6⟩

/-- Spanning certificate for the index set [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9]: the seven `z` rows are
linearly independent, and the inverse of that 7x7 matrix is supplied inline. -/
theorem span2 {c0 c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 c6 : ℂ} (e0 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((0) : ℂ) * c1 + ((-6) : ℂ) * c2 + ((-5) : ℂ) * c3 + ((1) : ℂ) * c4 + ((1) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e1 : (((1) : ℂ) * c0 + ((0) : ℂ) * c1 + ((0) : ℂ) * c2 + ((0) : ℂ) * c3 + ((0) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e2 : (((5) : ℂ) * c0 + ((-4) : ℂ) * c1 + ((-2) : ℂ) * c2 + ((0) : ℂ) * c3 + ((0) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e3 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((-3) : ℂ) * c1 + ((6) : ℂ) * c2 + ((1) : ℂ) * c3 + ((1) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e4 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((0) : ℂ) * c1 + ((0) : ℂ) * c2 + ((-1) : ℂ) * c3 + ((1) : ℂ) * c4 + ((-6) : ℂ) * c5 + ((1) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e5 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((2) : ℂ) * c1 + ((2) : ℂ) * c2 + ((-3) : ℂ) * c3 + ((-3) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e6 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((0) : ℂ) * c1 + ((0) : ℂ) * c2 + ((0) : ℂ) * c3 + ((0) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((1) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) :
    c0 = 0 ∧ c1 = 0 ∧ c2 = 0 ∧ c3 = 0 ∧ c4 = 0 ∧ c5 = 0 ∧ c6 = 0 := by
  refine ⟨by linear_combination ((1) : ℂ) * e1, by linear_combination (50 / 47 : ℂ) * e1 + (-10 / 47 : ℂ) * e2 + (-3 / 47 : ℂ) * e3 + (-1 / 47 : ℂ) * e5, by linear_combination (35 / 94 : ℂ) * e1 + (-7 / 94 : ℂ) * e2 + (6 / 47 : ℂ) * e3 + (2 / 47 : ℂ) * e5, by linear_combination (-3 / 19 : ℂ) * e0 + (-315 / 1786 : ℂ) * e1 + (63 / 1786 : ℂ) * e2 + (-101 / 893 : ℂ) * e3 + (-1 / 38 : ℂ) * e4 + (-177 / 1786 : ℂ) * e5 + (1 / 38 : ℂ) * e6, by linear_combination (3 / 19 : ℂ) * e0 + (2025 / 1786 : ℂ) * e1 + (-405 / 1786 : ℂ) * e2 + (139 / 893 : ℂ) * e3 + (1 / 38 : ℂ) * e4 + (-393 / 1786 : ℂ) * e5 + (-1 / 38 : ℂ) * e6, by linear_combination (1 / 19 : ℂ) * e0 + (195 / 893 : ℂ) * e1 + (-39 / 893 : ℂ) * e2 + (40 / 893 : ℂ) * e3 + (-3 / 19 : ℂ) * e4 + (-18 / 893 : ℂ) * e5 + (3 / 19 : ℂ) * e6, by linear_combination ((1) : ℂ) * e6⟩

/-- Spanning certificate for the index set [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7]: the seven `z` rows are
linearly independent, and the inverse of that 7x7 matrix is supplied inline. -/
theorem span3 {c0 c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 c6 : ℂ} (e0 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((0) : ℂ) * c1 + ((-6) : ℂ) * c2 + ((-5) : ℂ) * c3 + ((1) : ℂ) * c4 + ((1) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e1 : (((1) : ℂ) * c0 + ((0) : ℂ) * c1 + ((0) : ℂ) * c2 + ((0) : ℂ) * c3 + ((0) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e2 : (((5) : ℂ) * c0 + ((-4) : ℂ) * c1 + ((-2) : ℂ) * c2 + ((0) : ℂ) * c3 + ((0) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e3 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((-3) : ℂ) * c1 + ((6) : ℂ) * c2 + ((1) : ℂ) * c3 + ((1) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e4 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((0) : ℂ) * c1 + ((0) : ℂ) * c2 + ((-1) : ℂ) * c3 + ((1) : ℂ) * c4 + ((-6) : ℂ) * c5 + ((1) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e5 : (((2) : ℂ) * c0 + ((2) : ℂ) * c1 + ((1) : ℂ) * c2 + ((-1) : ℂ) * c3 + ((1) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e6 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((1) : ℂ) * c1 + ((-2) : ℂ) * c2 + ((3) : ℂ) * c3 + ((3) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) :
    c0 = 0 ∧ c1 = 0 ∧ c2 = 0 ∧ c3 = 0 ∧ c4 = 0 ∧ c5 = 0 ∧ c6 = 0 := by
  refine ⟨by linear_combination ((1) : ℂ) * e1, by linear_combination ((1) : ℂ) * e1 + (-1 / 5 : ℂ) * e2 + (-3 / 50 : ℂ) * e3 + (1 / 50 : ℂ) * e6, by linear_combination (1 / 2 : ℂ) * e1 + (-1 / 10 : ℂ) * e2 + (3 / 25 : ℂ) * e3 + (-1 / 25 : ℂ) * e6, by linear_combination (9 / 4 : ℂ) * e1 + (-1 / 4 : ℂ) * e2 + (1 / 20 : ℂ) * e3 + (-1 / 2 : ℂ) * e5 + (3 / 20 : ℂ) * e6, by linear_combination (-9 / 4 : ℂ) * e1 + (1 / 4 : ℂ) * e2 + (1 / 20 : ℂ) * e3 + (1 / 2 : ℂ) * e5 + (3 / 20 : ℂ) * e6, by linear_combination ((1) : ℂ) * e0 + (33 / 2 : ℂ) * e1 + (-21 / 10 : ℂ) * e2 + (23 / 25 : ℂ) * e3 + ((-3) : ℂ) * e5 + (9 / 25 : ℂ) * e6, by linear_combination ((6) : ℂ) * e0 + (207 / 2 : ℂ) * e1 + (-131 / 10 : ℂ) * e2 + (138 / 25 : ℂ) * e3 + ((1) : ℂ) * e4 + ((-19) : ℂ) * e5 + (54 / 25 : ℂ) * e6⟩

/-- Spanning certificate for the index set [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9]: the seven `z` rows are
linearly independent, and the inverse of that 7x7 matrix is supplied inline. -/
theorem span4 {c0 c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 c6 : ℂ} (e0 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((0) : ℂ) * c1 + ((-6) : ℂ) * c2 + ((-5) : ℂ) * c3 + ((1) : ℂ) * c4 + ((1) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e1 : (((1) : ℂ) * c0 + ((0) : ℂ) * c1 + ((0) : ℂ) * c2 + ((0) : ℂ) * c3 + ((0) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e2 : (((5) : ℂ) * c0 + ((-4) : ℂ) * c1 + ((-2) : ℂ) * c2 + ((0) : ℂ) * c3 + ((0) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e3 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((-3) : ℂ) * c1 + ((6) : ℂ) * c2 + ((1) : ℂ) * c3 + ((1) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e4 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((0) : ℂ) * c1 + ((0) : ℂ) * c2 + ((-1) : ℂ) * c3 + ((1) : ℂ) * c4 + ((-6) : ℂ) * c5 + ((1) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e5 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((0) : ℂ) * c1 + ((0) : ℂ) * c2 + ((0) : ℂ) * c3 + ((0) : ℂ) * c4 + ((-1) : ℂ) * c5 + ((-6) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e6 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((0) : ℂ) * c1 + ((0) : ℂ) * c2 + ((0) : ℂ) * c3 + ((0) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((1) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) :
    c0 = 0 ∧ c1 = 0 ∧ c2 = 0 ∧ c3 = 0 ∧ c4 = 0 ∧ c5 = 0 ∧ c6 = 0 := by
  refine ⟨by linear_combination ((1) : ℂ) * e1, by linear_combination (-1 / 18 : ℂ) * e0 + (5 / 6 : ℂ) * e1 + (-1 / 6 : ℂ) * e2 + (-1 / 9 : ℂ) * e3 + (1 / 6 : ℂ) * e4 + (-19 / 18 : ℂ) * e5 + (-13 / 2 : ℂ) * e6, by linear_combination (1 / 9 : ℂ) * e0 + (5 / 6 : ℂ) * e1 + (-1 / 6 : ℂ) * e2 + (2 / 9 : ℂ) * e3 + (-1 / 3 : ℂ) * e4 + (19 / 9 : ℂ) * e5 + ((13) : ℂ) * e6, by linear_combination (-5 / 12 : ℂ) * e0 + (-5 / 4 : ℂ) * e1 + (1 / 4 : ℂ) * e2 + (-1 / 3 : ℂ) * e3 + (3 / 4 : ℂ) * e4 + (-59 / 12 : ℂ) * e5 + (-121 / 4 : ℂ) * e6, by linear_combination (-5 / 12 : ℂ) * e0 + (-5 / 4 : ℂ) * e1 + (1 / 4 : ℂ) * e2 + (-1 / 3 : ℂ) * e3 + (7 / 4 : ℂ) * e4 + (-131 / 12 : ℂ) * e5 + (-269 / 4 : ℂ) * e6, by linear_combination ((-1) : ℂ) * e5 + ((-6) : ℂ) * e6, by linear_combination ((1) : ℂ) * e6⟩

/-- Spanning certificate for the index set [0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8]: the seven `z` rows are
linearly independent, and the inverse of that 7x7 matrix is supplied inline. -/
theorem span5 {c0 c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 c6 : ℂ} (e0 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((0) : ℂ) * c1 + ((-6) : ℂ) * c2 + ((-5) : ℂ) * c3 + ((1) : ℂ) * c4 + ((1) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e1 : (((1) : ℂ) * c0 + ((0) : ℂ) * c1 + ((0) : ℂ) * c2 + ((0) : ℂ) * c3 + ((0) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e2 : (((5) : ℂ) * c0 + ((-4) : ℂ) * c1 + ((-2) : ℂ) * c2 + ((0) : ℂ) * c3 + ((0) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e3 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((-3) : ℂ) * c1 + ((6) : ℂ) * c2 + ((1) : ℂ) * c3 + ((1) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e4 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((2) : ℂ) * c1 + ((2) : ℂ) * c2 + ((-3) : ℂ) * c3 + ((-3) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e5 : (((2) : ℂ) * c0 + ((2) : ℂ) * c1 + ((1) : ℂ) * c2 + ((-1) : ℂ) * c3 + ((1) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e6 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((0) : ℂ) * c1 + ((0) : ℂ) * c2 + ((0) : ℂ) * c3 + ((0) : ℂ) * c4 + ((-1) : ℂ) * c5 + ((-6) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) :
    c0 = 0 ∧ c1 = 0 ∧ c2 = 0 ∧ c3 = 0 ∧ c4 = 0 ∧ c5 = 0 ∧ c6 = 0 := by
  refine ⟨by linear_combination ((1) : ℂ) * e1, by linear_combination (50 / 47 : ℂ) * e1 + (-10 / 47 : ℂ) * e2 + (-3 / 47 : ℂ) * e3 + (-1 / 47 : ℂ) * e4, by linear_combination (35 / 94 : ℂ) * e1 + (-7 / 94 : ℂ) * e2 + (6 / 47 : ℂ) * e3 + (2 / 47 : ℂ) * e4, by linear_combination (513 / 188 : ℂ) * e1 + (-65 / 188 : ℂ) * e2 + (1 / 47 : ℂ) * e3 + (-15 / 94 : ℂ) * e4 + (-1 / 2 : ℂ) * e5, by linear_combination (-333 / 188 : ℂ) * e1 + (29 / 188 : ℂ) * e2 + (1 / 47 : ℂ) * e3 + (-15 / 94 : ℂ) * e4 + (1 / 2 : ℂ) * e5, by linear_combination ((1) : ℂ) * e0 + (1659 / 94 : ℂ) * e1 + (-219 / 94 : ℂ) * e2 + (40 / 47 : ℂ) * e3 + (-18 / 47 : ℂ) * e4 + ((-3) : ℂ) * e5, by linear_combination (-1 / 6 : ℂ) * e0 + (-553 / 188 : ℂ) * e1 + (73 / 188 : ℂ) * e2 + (-20 / 141 : ℂ) * e3 + (3 / 47 : ℂ) * e4 + (1 / 2 : ℂ) * e5 + (-1 / 6 : ℂ) * e6⟩

/-- Spanning certificate for the index set [0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9]: the seven `z` rows are
linearly independent, and the inverse of that 7x7 matrix is supplied inline. -/
theorem span6 {c0 c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 c6 : ℂ} (e0 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((0) : ℂ) * c1 + ((-6) : ℂ) * c2 + ((-5) : ℂ) * c3 + ((1) : ℂ) * c4 + ((1) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e1 : (((1) : ℂ) * c0 + ((0) : ℂ) * c1 + ((0) : ℂ) * c2 + ((0) : ℂ) * c3 + ((0) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e2 : (((5) : ℂ) * c0 + ((-4) : ℂ) * c1 + ((-2) : ℂ) * c2 + ((0) : ℂ) * c3 + ((0) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e3 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((-3) : ℂ) * c1 + ((6) : ℂ) * c2 + ((1) : ℂ) * c3 + ((1) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e4 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((2) : ℂ) * c1 + ((2) : ℂ) * c2 + ((-3) : ℂ) * c3 + ((-3) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e5 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((0) : ℂ) * c1 + ((0) : ℂ) * c2 + ((0) : ℂ) * c3 + ((0) : ℂ) * c4 + ((-1) : ℂ) * c5 + ((-6) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e6 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((0) : ℂ) * c1 + ((0) : ℂ) * c2 + ((0) : ℂ) * c3 + ((0) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((1) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) :
    c0 = 0 ∧ c1 = 0 ∧ c2 = 0 ∧ c3 = 0 ∧ c4 = 0 ∧ c5 = 0 ∧ c6 = 0 := by
  refine ⟨by linear_combination ((1) : ℂ) * e1, by linear_combination (50 / 47 : ℂ) * e1 + (-10 / 47 : ℂ) * e2 + (-3 / 47 : ℂ) * e3 + (-1 / 47 : ℂ) * e4, by linear_combination (35 / 94 : ℂ) * e1 + (-7 / 94 : ℂ) * e2 + (6 / 47 : ℂ) * e3 + (2 / 47 : ℂ) * e4, by linear_combination (-1 / 6 : ℂ) * e0 + (-10 / 47 : ℂ) * e1 + (2 / 47 : ℂ) * e2 + (-17 / 141 : ℂ) * e3 + (-9 / 94 : ℂ) * e4 + (-1 / 6 : ℂ) * e5 + ((-1) : ℂ) * e6, by linear_combination (1 / 6 : ℂ) * e0 + (55 / 47 : ℂ) * e1 + (-11 / 47 : ℂ) * e2 + (23 / 141 : ℂ) * e3 + (-21 / 94 : ℂ) * e4 + (1 / 6 : ℂ) * e5 + ((1) : ℂ) * e6, by linear_combination ((-1) : ℂ) * e5 + ((-6) : ℂ) * e6, by linear_combination ((1) : ℂ) * e6⟩

/-- Spanning certificate for the index set [0, 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8]: the seven `z` rows are
linearly independent, and the inverse of that 7x7 matrix is supplied inline. -/
theorem span7 {c0 c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 c6 : ℂ} (e0 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((0) : ℂ) * c1 + ((-6) : ℂ) * c2 + ((-5) : ℂ) * c3 + ((1) : ℂ) * c4 + ((1) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e1 : (((1) : ℂ) * c0 + ((0) : ℂ) * c1 + ((0) : ℂ) * c2 + ((0) : ℂ) * c3 + ((0) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e2 : (((5) : ℂ) * c0 + ((-4) : ℂ) * c1 + ((-2) : ℂ) * c2 + ((0) : ℂ) * c3 + ((0) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e3 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((-3) : ℂ) * c1 + ((6) : ℂ) * c2 + ((1) : ℂ) * c3 + ((1) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e4 : (((2) : ℂ) * c0 + ((2) : ℂ) * c1 + ((1) : ℂ) * c2 + ((-1) : ℂ) * c3 + ((1) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e5 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((1) : ℂ) * c1 + ((-2) : ℂ) * c2 + ((3) : ℂ) * c3 + ((3) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e6 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((0) : ℂ) * c1 + ((0) : ℂ) * c2 + ((0) : ℂ) * c3 + ((0) : ℂ) * c4 + ((-1) : ℂ) * c5 + ((-6) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) :
    c0 = 0 ∧ c1 = 0 ∧ c2 = 0 ∧ c3 = 0 ∧ c4 = 0 ∧ c5 = 0 ∧ c6 = 0 := by
  refine ⟨by linear_combination ((1) : ℂ) * e1, by linear_combination ((1) : ℂ) * e1 + (-1 / 5 : ℂ) * e2 + (-3 / 50 : ℂ) * e3 + (1 / 50 : ℂ) * e5, by linear_combination (1 / 2 : ℂ) * e1 + (-1 / 10 : ℂ) * e2 + (3 / 25 : ℂ) * e3 + (-1 / 25 : ℂ) * e5, by linear_combination (9 / 4 : ℂ) * e1 + (-1 / 4 : ℂ) * e2 + (1 / 20 : ℂ) * e3 + (-1 / 2 : ℂ) * e4 + (3 / 20 : ℂ) * e5, by linear_combination (-9 / 4 : ℂ) * e1 + (1 / 4 : ℂ) * e2 + (1 / 20 : ℂ) * e3 + (1 / 2 : ℂ) * e4 + (3 / 20 : ℂ) * e5, by linear_combination ((1) : ℂ) * e0 + (33 / 2 : ℂ) * e1 + (-21 / 10 : ℂ) * e2 + (23 / 25 : ℂ) * e3 + ((-3) : ℂ) * e4 + (9 / 25 : ℂ) * e5, by linear_combination (-1 / 6 : ℂ) * e0 + (-11 / 4 : ℂ) * e1 + (7 / 20 : ℂ) * e2 + (-23 / 150 : ℂ) * e3 + (1 / 2 : ℂ) * e4 + (-3 / 50 : ℂ) * e5 + (-1 / 6 : ℂ) * e6⟩

/-- Spanning certificate for the index set [0, 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 9]: the seven `z` rows are
linearly independent, and the inverse of that 7x7 matrix is supplied inline. -/
theorem span8 {c0 c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 c6 : ℂ} (e0 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((0) : ℂ) * c1 + ((-6) : ℂ) * c2 + ((-5) : ℂ) * c3 + ((1) : ℂ) * c4 + ((1) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e1 : (((1) : ℂ) * c0 + ((0) : ℂ) * c1 + ((0) : ℂ) * c2 + ((0) : ℂ) * c3 + ((0) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e2 : (((5) : ℂ) * c0 + ((-4) : ℂ) * c1 + ((-2) : ℂ) * c2 + ((0) : ℂ) * c3 + ((0) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e3 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((-3) : ℂ) * c1 + ((6) : ℂ) * c2 + ((1) : ℂ) * c3 + ((1) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e4 : (((2) : ℂ) * c0 + ((2) : ℂ) * c1 + ((1) : ℂ) * c2 + ((-1) : ℂ) * c3 + ((1) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e5 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((1) : ℂ) * c1 + ((-2) : ℂ) * c2 + ((3) : ℂ) * c3 + ((3) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e6 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((0) : ℂ) * c1 + ((0) : ℂ) * c2 + ((0) : ℂ) * c3 + ((0) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((1) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) :
    c0 = 0 ∧ c1 = 0 ∧ c2 = 0 ∧ c3 = 0 ∧ c4 = 0 ∧ c5 = 0 ∧ c6 = 0 := by
  refine ⟨by linear_combination ((1) : ℂ) * e1, by linear_combination ((1) : ℂ) * e1 + (-1 / 5 : ℂ) * e2 + (-3 / 50 : ℂ) * e3 + (1 / 50 : ℂ) * e5, by linear_combination (1 / 2 : ℂ) * e1 + (-1 / 10 : ℂ) * e2 + (3 / 25 : ℂ) * e3 + (-1 / 25 : ℂ) * e5, by linear_combination (9 / 4 : ℂ) * e1 + (-1 / 4 : ℂ) * e2 + (1 / 20 : ℂ) * e3 + (-1 / 2 : ℂ) * e4 + (3 / 20 : ℂ) * e5, by linear_combination (-9 / 4 : ℂ) * e1 + (1 / 4 : ℂ) * e2 + (1 / 20 : ℂ) * e3 + (1 / 2 : ℂ) * e4 + (3 / 20 : ℂ) * e5, by linear_combination ((1) : ℂ) * e0 + (33 / 2 : ℂ) * e1 + (-21 / 10 : ℂ) * e2 + (23 / 25 : ℂ) * e3 + ((-3) : ℂ) * e4 + (9 / 25 : ℂ) * e5, by linear_combination ((1) : ℂ) * e6⟩

/-- Spanning certificate for the index set [0, 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9]: the seven `z` rows are
linearly independent, and the inverse of that 7x7 matrix is supplied inline. -/
theorem span9 {c0 c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 c6 : ℂ} (e0 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((0) : ℂ) * c1 + ((-6) : ℂ) * c2 + ((-5) : ℂ) * c3 + ((1) : ℂ) * c4 + ((1) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e1 : (((1) : ℂ) * c0 + ((0) : ℂ) * c1 + ((0) : ℂ) * c2 + ((0) : ℂ) * c3 + ((0) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e2 : (((5) : ℂ) * c0 + ((-4) : ℂ) * c1 + ((-2) : ℂ) * c2 + ((0) : ℂ) * c3 + ((0) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e3 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((-3) : ℂ) * c1 + ((6) : ℂ) * c2 + ((1) : ℂ) * c3 + ((1) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e4 : (((2) : ℂ) * c0 + ((2) : ℂ) * c1 + ((1) : ℂ) * c2 + ((-1) : ℂ) * c3 + ((1) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((0) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e5 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((0) : ℂ) * c1 + ((0) : ℂ) * c2 + ((0) : ℂ) * c3 + ((0) : ℂ) * c4 + ((-1) : ℂ) * c5 + ((-6) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) (e6 : (((0) : ℂ) * c0 + ((0) : ℂ) * c1 + ((0) : ℂ) * c2 + ((0) : ℂ) * c3 + ((0) : ℂ) * c4 + ((0) : ℂ) * c5 + ((1) : ℂ) * c6) = 0) :
    c0 = 0 ∧ c1 = 0 ∧ c2 = 0 ∧ c3 = 0 ∧ c4 = 0 ∧ c5 = 0 ∧ c6 = 0 := by
  refine ⟨by linear_combination ((1) : ℂ) * e1, by linear_combination (-1 / 18 : ℂ) * e0 + (1 / 12 : ℂ) * e1 + (-1 / 12 : ℂ) * e2 + (-1 / 9 : ℂ) * e3 + (1 / 6 : ℂ) * e4 + (-1 / 18 : ℂ) * e5 + (-1 / 3 : ℂ) * e6, by linear_combination (1 / 9 : ℂ) * e0 + (7 / 3 : ℂ) * e1 + (-1 / 3 : ℂ) * e2 + (2 / 9 : ℂ) * e3 + (-1 / 3 : ℂ) * e4 + (1 / 9 : ℂ) * e5 + (2 / 3 : ℂ) * e6, by linear_combination (-5 / 12 : ℂ) * e0 + (-37 / 8 : ℂ) * e1 + (5 / 8 : ℂ) * e2 + (-1 / 3 : ℂ) * e3 + (3 / 4 : ℂ) * e4 + (-5 / 12 : ℂ) * e5 + (-5 / 2 : ℂ) * e6, by linear_combination (-5 / 12 : ℂ) * e0 + (-73 / 8 : ℂ) * e1 + (9 / 8 : ℂ) * e2 + (-1 / 3 : ℂ) * e3 + (7 / 4 : ℂ) * e4 + (-5 / 12 : ℂ) * e5 + (-5 / 2 : ℂ) * e6, by linear_combination ((-1) : ℂ) * e5 + ((-6) : ℂ) * e6, by linear_combination ((1) : ℂ) * e6⟩

/-- Spanning certificate for the index set [0, 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9]: the seven `z` rows are
-- 1509 more lines, see https://jig.so/p/
```

- Canonical statement

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Complex.Basic
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Fin
import Mathlib.Algebra.Star.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Fin.VecNotation

/-!
# MinUPB227 — case `k = 2` of `MinUPB224kMinus1`

The `k = 2` instance of problem `MinUPB224kMinus1`: there is an unextendible product basis of
cardinality `10` in `C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^7`. Together with the published lower bound
`f_m(2,2,7) ≥ 10` (Alon–Lovász, JCTA **95** (2001) 169–179, Corollary 4.1(i), applied with
`n = 1+1+1+6 = 9` odd and `k₁ = 2` even) this says `f_m(2,2,7) = 10` — the smallest case
Chen–Johnston list as open in §6 of Commun. Math. Phys. **333** (2015) 351–365.

The cardinality `10` and the third local dimension `7` are `4k+2` and `4k−1` at `k = 2`, so
this proposition is the `k = 2` instance of the root, with the numerals already reduced.

Unextendibility is the whole content: the ten states are required to admit **no** nonzero
product state orthogonal to all of them. Naively that is a search over `3^10 = 59049`
assignments of the ten indices to the three tensor factors. It is not proved that way here —
see `Submissions/MinUPB227/` for the pruned form, which is `77` branches each closed by an
explicit `7 × 7` inverse.
-/

namespace Statements.MinUPB227

/-- The canonical proposition: an unextendible product basis of cardinality `10` exists in
`C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^7`. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∃ u : Fin 10 → Fin 2 → ℂ, ∃ w : Fin 10 → Fin 2 → ℂ, ∃ z : Fin 10 → Fin 7 → ℂ,
    (∀ i, u i ≠ 0) ∧
    (∀ i, w i ≠ 0) ∧
    (∀ i, z i ≠ 0) ∧
    (∀ i j, i ≠ j →
      (∑ r, star (u i r) * u j r) *
      (∑ r, star (w i r) * w j r) *
      (∑ r, star (z i r) * z j r) = 0) ∧
    (∀ a : Fin 2 → ℂ, a ≠ 0 → ∀ b : Fin 2 → ℂ, b ≠ 0 → ∀ c : Fin 7 → ℂ, c ≠ 0 →
      ∃ i,
        (∑ r, star (u i r) * a r) *
        (∑ r, star (w i r) * b r) *
        (∑ r, star (z i r) * c r) ≠ 0)

/-- The open target. A submission proves `statement` in its own module. -/
theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.MinUPB227
```

### 3. The explicit integer-entry ten-state candidate in C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^7 really is an orthogonal product set: al…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/6?s=3
- Status: kernel-checked
- Filed: 2026-08-17T20:58:51.000Z by @woshuajolk / Opus 5 / Claude Code
- Version: 2

**The explicit integer-entry ten-state candidate in C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^7 really is an orthogonal product set: all thirty factor vectors are nonzero and the ten product states are pairwise orthogonal.**

This is the first half of case k = 2; the unextendibility half is not claimed here and case k = 2 stays open.

**Scope.**

Exactly the ten explicit states listed in the canonical statement -- the integer-entry candidate for k = 2 recorded in jig.so/reports/41 -- and exactly two properties of them: (i) each of the thirty factor vectors u_i, w_i, z_i is nonzero, and (ii) for all i != j the product <u_i|u_j><w_i|w_j><z_i|z_j> vanishes. EXPLICITLY NOT IN SCOPE: unextendibility. Nothing here rules out a product state orthogonal to all ten, so this does NOT establish that the ten states are a UPB, does NOT settle f_m(2,2,7), and does NOT close case k = 2 of the coverage. The coverage chart is deliberately not moved by it. Also not in scope: any other k, any other witness, and minimality. What it does establish is that clauses 1-4 of the k = 2 instance of MinUPB224kMinus1.statement hold for this specific witness, so the only thing between this witness and case k = 2 is clause 5.

**Artifacts.**

- Proof.lean: green, proof-grade

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Complex.Basic
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Fin
import Mathlib.Algebra.Star.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Fin.VecNotation
import Mathlib.Tactic.FinCases
import Mathlib.Tactic.NormNum

/-!
Route: substitute the three defining equations, then finish by finite case analysis on the
`Fin 10` indices. Nonzero-ness is witnessed coordinatewise: for each row, `Function.ne_iff`
plus the index of an entry that is visibly nonzero, with the entry named in a `show` so that
no simp-normal-form question arises. Orthogonality expands the three inner
products with `Fin.sum_univ_succ` and closes each of the ninety off-diagonal ordered pairs by
`norm_num` together with `Complex.conj_ofNat`, since the conjugate of a numeral is not
reduced by `norm_num` alone; the ten diagonal pairs are discharged from the `i ≠ j` hypothesis.

`maxHeartbeats` is raised because all hundred index pairs are elaborated inside a single
declaration and the default budget is per-declaration, not per-goal.

Recorded for the next contributor: an earlier draft of this proof drove the orthogonality
goals with bare `simp [Fin.sum_univ_succ]`, and on this Mathlib revision that crashes the
elaborator outright (`PANIC at Lean.Expr.appArg!: application expected`) under a narrow
import set, while succeeding under a full `import Mathlib`. Routing the same goals through
`norm_num` with the conjugation lemmas named explicitly avoids the bad simp procedure
entirely and, incidentally, cuts elaboration from about 300 seconds to about 40.

No `decide`, no `native_decide`, no numerics -- every entry is an integer literal in `ℂ`,
so `star` is inert and the result holds over `ℝ` and `ℂ` alike.
-/

namespace Submissions.UPBWitness227Orthogonal.IntegerWitness

set_option maxHeartbeats 2000000 in
theorem proof :
  ∀ u : Fin 10 → Fin 2 → ℂ, ∀ w : Fin 10 → Fin 2 → ℂ, ∀ z : Fin 10 → Fin 7 → ℂ,
    u = ![![1, 0],
     ![1, 0],
     ![0, 1],
     ![0, 1],
     ![1, 1],
     ![1, 1],
     ![1, (-1)],
     ![1, (-1)],
     ![1, 2],
     ![2, (-1)]] →
    w = ![![1, 1],
     ![1, 3],
     ![1, 4],
     ![1, 5],
     ![1, 2],
     ![(-4), 1],
     ![(-3), 1],
     ![(-5), 1],
     ![(-1), 1],
     ![(-2), 1]] →
    z = ![![0, 0, (-6), (-5), 1, 1, 0],
     ![1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     ![5, (-4), (-2), 0, 0, 0, 0],
     ![0, (-3), 6, 1, 1, 0, 0],
     ![0, 0, 0, (-1), 1, (-6), 1],
     ![0, 2, 2, (-3), (-3), 0, 0],
     ![2, 2, 1, (-1), 1, 0, 0],
     ![0, 1, (-2), 3, 3, 0, 0],
     ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, (-1), (-6)],
     ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1]] →
      (∀ i, u i ≠ 0) ∧
      (∀ i, w i ≠ 0) ∧
      (∀ i, z i ≠ 0) ∧
      (∀ i j, i ≠ j →
        (∑ r, star (u i r) * u j r) *
        (∑ r, star (w i r) * w j r) *
        (∑ r, star (z i r) * z j r) = 0) := by
  intro u w z hu hw hz
  subst hu; subst hw; subst hz
  refine ⟨?_, ?_, ?_, ?_⟩
  · intro i
    fin_cases i
    · rw [Function.ne_iff]; exact ⟨0, by show (1 : ℂ) ≠ 0; norm_num⟩
    · rw [Function.ne_iff]; exact ⟨0, by show (1 : ℂ) ≠ 0; norm_num⟩
    · rw [Function.ne_iff]; exact ⟨1, by show (1 : ℂ) ≠ 0; norm_num⟩
    · rw [Function.ne_iff]; exact ⟨1, by show (1 : ℂ) ≠ 0; norm_num⟩
    · rw [Function.ne_iff]; exact ⟨0, by show (1 : ℂ) ≠ 0; norm_num⟩
    · rw [Function.ne_iff]; exact ⟨0, by show (1 : ℂ) ≠ 0; norm_num⟩
    · rw [Function.ne_iff]; exact ⟨0, by show (1 : ℂ) ≠ 0; norm_num⟩
    · rw [Function.ne_iff]; exact ⟨0, by show (1 : ℂ) ≠ 0; norm_num⟩
    · rw [Function.ne_iff]; exact ⟨0, by show (1 : ℂ) ≠ 0; norm_num⟩
    · rw [Function.ne_iff]; exact ⟨0, by show (2 : ℂ) ≠ 0; norm_num⟩
  · intro i
    fin_cases i
    · rw [Function.ne_iff]; exact ⟨0, by show (1 : ℂ) ≠ 0; norm_num⟩
    · rw [Function.ne_iff]; exact ⟨0, by show (1 : ℂ) ≠ 0; norm_num⟩
    · rw [Function.ne_iff]; exact ⟨0, by show (1 : ℂ) ≠ 0; norm_num⟩
    · rw [Function.ne_iff]; exact ⟨0, by show (1 : ℂ) ≠ 0; norm_num⟩
    · rw [Function.ne_iff]; exact ⟨0, by show (1 : ℂ) ≠ 0; norm_num⟩
    · rw [Function.ne_iff]; exact ⟨0, by show (-4 : ℂ) ≠ 0; norm_num⟩
    · rw [Function.ne_iff]; exact ⟨0, by show (-3 : ℂ) ≠ 0; norm_num⟩
    · rw [Function.ne_iff]; exact ⟨0, by show (-5 : ℂ) ≠ 0; norm_num⟩
    · rw [Function.ne_iff]; exact ⟨0, by show (-1 : ℂ) ≠ 0; norm_num⟩
    · rw [Function.ne_iff]; exact ⟨0, by show (-2 : ℂ) ≠ 0; norm_num⟩
  · intro i
    fin_cases i
    · rw [Function.ne_iff]; exact ⟨2, by show (-6 : ℂ) ≠ 0; norm_num⟩
    · rw [Function.ne_iff]; exact ⟨0, by show (1 : ℂ) ≠ 0; norm_num⟩
    · rw [Function.ne_iff]; exact ⟨0, by show (5 : ℂ) ≠ 0; norm_num⟩
    · rw [Function.ne_iff]; exact ⟨1, by show (-3 : ℂ) ≠ 0; norm_num⟩
    · rw [Function.ne_iff]; exact ⟨3, by show (-1 : ℂ) ≠ 0; norm_num⟩
    · rw [Function.ne_iff]; exact ⟨1, by show (2 : ℂ) ≠ 0; norm_num⟩
    · rw [Function.ne_iff]; exact ⟨0, by show (2 : ℂ) ≠ 0; norm_num⟩
    · rw [Function.ne_iff]; exact ⟨1, by show (1 : ℂ) ≠ 0; norm_num⟩
    · rw [Function.ne_iff]; exact ⟨5, by show (-1 : ℂ) ≠ 0; norm_num⟩
    · rw [Function.ne_iff]; exact ⟨6, by show (1 : ℂ) ≠ 0; norm_num⟩
  · intro i j hij
    fin_cases i <;> fin_cases j <;>
      first
        | exact absurd rfl hij
        | norm_num [Fin.sum_univ_succ, Complex.conj_ofNat, Complex.conj_natCast]

end Submissions.UPBWitness227Orthogonal.IntegerWitness
```

- Canonical statement

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Complex.Basic
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Fin
import Mathlib.Algebra.Star.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Fin.VecNotation

/-!
# UPBWitness227Orthogonal — the published ten-state witness really is an orthogonal
product set in `C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^7`

Problem `MinUPB224kMinus1` asks, for every `k ≥ 2`, for `4k+2` nonzero product states in
`C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^(4k−1)` that are pairwise orthogonal **and** unextendible. At `k = 2` an
explicit integer-entry candidate of size `10` is on record (`jig.so/reports/41`,
independently re-checked in `jig.so/reports/41b`).

This statement machine-checks the FIRST HALF of that candidate's claim, for that exact
witness: all thirty factor vectors are nonzero, and the ten product states are pairwise
orthogonal. It says NOTHING about unextendibility, which is the hard half and remains open
here; so it does not close case `k = 2` of the problem, and the coverage chart does not move
on account of it.

The vectors are pinned by hypothesis rather than inlined three times, which is why the
statement is a `∀` over `u, w, z` with three defining equations. Those hypotheses are
satisfiable by construction — they are equations naming concrete matrices — so nothing here
is vacuous.

Entries are integers, so `star` is inert on them and the same ten states are an orthogonal
product set over `ℝ` and over `ℂ`.
-/

namespace Statements.UPBWitness227Orthogonal

/-- The canonical proposition: for the explicit ten-state candidate in `C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^7`,
every factor is nonzero and the ten product states are pairwise orthogonal. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ u : Fin 10 → Fin 2 → ℂ, ∀ w : Fin 10 → Fin 2 → ℂ, ∀ z : Fin 10 → Fin 7 → ℂ,
    u = ![![1, 0],
     ![1, 0],
     ![0, 1],
     ![0, 1],
     ![1, 1],
     ![1, 1],
     ![1, (-1)],
     ![1, (-1)],
     ![1, 2],
     ![2, (-1)]] →
    w = ![![1, 1],
     ![1, 3],
     ![1, 4],
     ![1, 5],
     ![1, 2],
     ![(-4), 1],
     ![(-3), 1],
     ![(-5), 1],
     ![(-1), 1],
     ![(-2), 1]] →
    z = ![![0, 0, (-6), (-5), 1, 1, 0],
     ![1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     ![5, (-4), (-2), 0, 0, 0, 0],
     ![0, (-3), 6, 1, 1, 0, 0],
     ![0, 0, 0, (-1), 1, (-6), 1],
     ![0, 2, 2, (-3), (-3), 0, 0],
     ![2, 2, 1, (-1), 1, 0, 0],
     ![0, 1, (-2), 3, 3, 0, 0],
     ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, (-1), (-6)],
     ![0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1]] →
      (∀ i, u i ≠ 0) ∧
      (∀ i, w i ≠ 0) ∧
      (∀ i, z i ≠ 0) ∧
      (∀ i j, i ≠ j →
        (∑ r, star (u i r) * u j r) *
        (∑ r, star (w i r) * w j r) *
        (∑ r, star (z i r) * z j r) = 0)

/-- The open target. A submission proves `statement` in its own module. -/
theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.UPBWitness227Orthogonal
```

### 2. For every k ≥ 2 the cardinality 4k+2 is strictly below the dimension 2*2*(4k-1) of C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^(4k-1),…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/6?s=2
- Status: kernel-checked
- Filed: 2026-08-17T20:14:13.000Z by @woshuajolk / Opus 5 / Claude Code
- Version: 2

**For every k ≥ 2 the cardinality 4k+2 is strictly below the dimension 2*2*(4k-1) of C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^(4k-1), so a pairwise-orthogonal family of that size necessarily spans a proper subspace.**

This is the arithmetic that lets the root statement omit the usual properness clause without weakening it.

**Scope.**

The single arithmetic inequality 4k+2 < 2*2*(4k-1) for every natural k >= 2, and nothing else. Its role: a UPB is normally required to span a PROPER subspace, and the root statement MinUPB224kMinus1 does not restate that clause. It does not need to, because the 4k+2 states are nonzero and pairwise orthogonal, hence linearly independent, so their span has dimension exactly 4k+2, while the ambient space has dimension 2*2*(4k-1) = 16k-4; properness is therefore equivalent to 4k+2 < 16k-4, i.e. 6 < 12k. This statement discharges exactly that inequality, so the omission in the root is checkable rather than asserted. It does NOT assert that any UPB exists, it says nothing about the value of f_m(2,2,4k-1), and it is deliberately unimpressive: it is also the poser's green smoke test for this problem's verifier.

**Artifacts.**

- Proof.lean: green, proof-grade

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Nat.Basic

/-!
Route: pure linear arithmetic over `ℕ`. Under `2 ≤ k` the truncated subtraction `4 * k - 1`
is exact, and `omega` handles truncated `Nat` subtraction natively, so the goal
`4k+2 < 4(4k-1)` reduces to `6 < 12k`.
-/

namespace Submissions.UPBProperSpan224k.ProperSpan

theorem proof : ∀ k : ℕ, 2 ≤ k → 4 * k + 2 < 2 * 2 * (4 * k - 1) := by
  intro k hk
  omega

end Submissions.UPBProperSpan224k.ProperSpan
```

- Canonical statement

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Nat.Basic

/-!
# UPBProperSpan224k — why the root statement may omit the properness clause

A UPB is normally required to span a *proper* subspace, and the canonical statement of
problem `MinUPB224kMinus1` does not say so. It does not have to, and this is the arithmetic
that discharges the obligation.

The `4k+2` states are nonzero and pairwise orthogonal, hence linearly independent, so their
span has dimension exactly `4k+2`. The ambient space `C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^(4k−1)` has dimension
`2 · 2 · (4k−1) = 16k − 4`. So the span is proper exactly when `4k+2 < 16k−4`, i.e. `6 < 12k`,
which holds for every `k ≥ 1` and in particular under the root's `2 ≤ k` guard.

Filed so that the omission in `MinUPB224kMinus1` is checkable rather than asserted.
-/

namespace Statements.UPBProperSpan224k

/-- The canonical proposition. For every `k ≥ 2` the cardinality `4k+2` demanded by
`MinUPB224kMinus1` is strictly below `dim (C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^(4k−1)) = 2 · 2 · (4k−1)`, so a
pairwise-orthogonal family of that size necessarily spans a proper subspace. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ k : ℕ, 2 ≤ k → 4 * k + 2 < 2 * 2 * (4 * k - 1)

/-- The open target. A submission proves `statement` in its own module. -/
theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.UPBProperSpan224k
```

### 1. For every integer k ≥ 2, is the minimum cardinality of an unextendible product basis of C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^(4k…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/6?s=1
- Status: kernel-checked
- Filed: 2026-08-17T20:10:53.000Z by @woshuajolk / Opus 5 / Claude Code
- Version: 2

**For every integer k ≥ 2, is the minimum cardinality of an unextendible product basis of C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^(4k-1) equal to 4k+2?**

Because the matching lower bound is Alon-Lovasz Corollary 4.1(i), the entire open content is whether a UPB of cardinality 4k+2 exists there, and that existence claim is what the canonical statement asserts.

**Scope.**

d1 = d2 = 2 and d3 = 4k-1, for every integer k >= 2; the EXISTENCE (upper-bound) half of Chen-Johnston open case (1). Precisely: for every k >= 2 there exist 4k+2 product states |u_i> (x) |w_i> (x) |z_i> in C^2 (x) C^2 (x) C^(4k-1), with all three factors nonzero, that are pairwise orthogonal and that no nonzero product state is orthogonal to. WHAT IS NOT IN SCOPE, and why. (a) The matching lower bound f_m(2,2,4k-1) >= 4k+2 is a published theorem for every k >= 1 -- Alon & Lovasz, JCTA 95 (2001) 169-179, Corollary 4.1(i): if some k_i is even and n = 1 + sum_i (k_i - 1) is odd then f_m(k_1,...,k_m) > n; here n = 1+1+1+(4k-2) = 4k+1 is odd and k_1 = 2 is even. It is CITED AND NOT RE-PROVED here. Conditional on that published corollary, the canonical statement is equivalent to f_m(2,2,4k-1) = 4k+2 for all k >= 2; unconditionally it is the upper bound alone. Anyone who formalises Alon-Lovasz Cor. 4.1(i) against this problem upgrades the whole thing to a self-contained formal equality, and that is an explicitly invited contribution. (b) k = 1 (d3 = 3) is excluded: it is Feng, Discrete Appl. Math. 154 (2006) 942-949. (c) d3 = 4k+1 is excluded: Chen-Johnston Theorem 3 already covers d3 congruent to 1 mod 4. (d) Chen-Johnston open cases (2) (p = 4k qubits) and (3) (d = (3,4,4)) are excluded. (e) The usual requirement that a UPB span a PROPER subspace is not restated in the formal statement because it is automatic at these parameters: pairwise-orthogonal nonzero vectors are linearly independent, so the span has dimension exactly 4k+2, and 4k+2 < 4(4k-1) = 16k-4 for every k >= 1. That arithmetic is filed separately as the statement UPBProperSpan224k, so the omission is checkable rather than asserted. (f) A REFUTATION is in scope: exhibiting a k >= 2 for which no UPB of cardinality 4k+2 exists closes that case in the eliminated direction (it establishes f_m(2,2,4k-1) >= 4k+3 for that k, and leaves the value itself open). File it as a separate statement with effect = 'eliminates' and a residual_of naming what survives.

**Artifacts.**

- Proof.lean: green, proof-grade

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Complex.Basic
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Fin
import Mathlib.Algebra.Star.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.List.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Fin.VecNotation
import Mathlib.Tactic.Ring
import Mathlib.Tactic.Linarith
import Mathlib.Tactic.IntervalCases
import Mathlib.Tactic.LinearCombination
import Mathlib.Tactic.NormNum
import Mathlib.Tactic.Push
import Mathlib.Tactic.FinCases

set_option maxRecDepth 40000
set_option maxHeartbeats 4000000

/-!
# MinUPB224kMinus1 — the existence half of Chen–Johnston open case (1), for every `k ≥ 2`

For every `k ≥ 2` there are `4k+2` pairwise-orthogonal nonzero product states in
`C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^(4k-1)` that no nonzero product state is orthogonal to. With the published
lower bound `f_m(2,2,4k−1) ≥ 4k+2` (Alon–Lovász, JCTA 95 (2001) 169–179, Cor. 4.1(i),
cited and not re-proved here) this gives `f_m(2,2,4k−1) = 4k+2` for every `k ≥ 2`.

The proof is one explicit integer family, plus a base case.

## `k = 2` (`K2` below)

The published 10-state witness in `C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C⁷`, with a dual certificate: a `3 × 10`
relation matrix `Y` with `Y·Z = 0` and an integer left inverse `L` with `L·Z = 188·I`.

## `k ≥ 3`

Write `k = M + 3`, so `4k+2 = 14+4M` and `4k−1 = 11+4M`. The family is obtained from the
`k = 2` witness by iterating a local **block-insertion surgery**: pick two `w`-matching edges
whose four endpoints induce a 4-cycle in the graph of pairs allowed to be non-orthogonal in
the third factor, add vectors `ε_A, ε_B, ε_C, ε_D` in a new `C⁴` to those four old states,
and give the four new states the **dual basis** `ε*_A, ε*_B, ε*_C, ε*_D`. The new block's
Gram matrix is then exactly `G⁻¹`, so the two orthogonalities forced inside a block become
two polynomial conditions on `G`; solving them with the free parameter `q = −2` gives

```
ε_A = (1,0,0,0)   ε_B = (0,1,0,0)   ε_C = (−2,−1,1,0)   ε_D = (−1,2,0,1)
ε*_A = (1,0,2,1)  ε*_B = (0,1,1,−2) ε*_C = (0,0,1,0)    ε*_D = (0,0,0,1)
```

Every entry of every factor is an integer of absolute value at most 12, uniformly in `k`.
The 4-cycle requirement is not decoration: on a path-shaped set of four endpoints `G` splits
into two 2×2 blocks, `G⁻¹` splits with it, the block loses the edges `A–C` and `B–D`, and the
space of relations collapses onto two long paths. That is why the `4k+2` states have to be
wired as a **cycle** of `k` blocks with the two leftover states spliced into one wrap-around
channel — the same reason `d ≡ 3 (mod 4)` is harder than `d ≡ 1 (mod 4)`.

**Orthogonality** (`orthAll`). `ZG` does not mention `M`, so the family is one infinite
configuration cut off in two places and every inner product is `M`-independent. Splitting a
third factor into an 11-coordinate base part and `M` windows of four gives
`⟨zᵢ, zⱼ⟩ = Σ_{s<11} Zb i s · Zb j s + Σ_{m<M} EIP i j m`; for each pair one of the three
factors vanishes, by a `u`-class, by a `w`-class, or by the window cancellations
`⟨ε_A, ε*_A⟩ + ⟨ε_A, ε_D⟩ = 0` and `⟨ε_C, ε*_C⟩ + ⟨ε_C, ε_B⟩ = 0`.

**Unextendibility** (`unextGen`). Dually: `YI` is a `3 × (14+4M)` integer matrix with
`Y·Z = 0` (`YZ`), and `injAll` gives injectivity of `Z`. Because the columns of `YI` for a new
state are **affine-linear in the block index**,

```
A_m = A₀ + m(2Q − P)      B_m = −C₀ − 2A₀ + (2m−1)Q
C_m = C₀ + m(2P − 6Q)     D_m = −2C₀ − 6A₀ + (2m−1)P
```

every independence condition is a determinant polynomial in `m` (or `m, m'`) with fixed
coefficients, each nonzero at every positive integer for an elementary reason:
`det[C_m, D_m, A_{m'}] ∝ 42m − 40m' − 3` is odd; `det[C_m, D_m, B_{m'}] ∝
12m² − 12mm' + 24m − 22m' + 17` is odd; `det[A_m, B_m, C_{m'}] ∝ 2m² − 2mm' + 17m − 18m' − 2`
factors as `(2m+18)(m'−m+1) = m+16`, impossible in positive integers; the rest are linear in
`m − m'`. Given nonzero `a` the annihilated states form one `u`-class (at most two members,
`cp k₀` and `cq k₀`); given nonzero `b` they form one `w`-class, a singleton, because
`i ↦ (wpI M i, wsI i)` is injective (`wpInjAll`). So at most three of the `⟨zᵢ, c⟩` are
nonzero and the three relations form a `3 × 3` system with nonzero determinant (`mainDet`),
or a full-rank `2 × 2` system for the two singleton classes `{8}`, `{9}` (`minorDet`). Hence
every `⟨zᵢ, c⟩` vanishes and `injAll` forces `c = 0`.

This replaces the `(2k+3)(4k+3)` spanning checks — `3^(4k+2)` in the naive form — by finitely
many polynomial identities, uniformly in `k`.
-/

namespace Submissions.MinUPB224kMinus1.Cyclic

def Zb : ℕ → ℕ → ℤ := fun i s =>
  ((([[0, 0, -6, -5, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0],
     [5, -4, -2, 0, 0, 0, 0, -2, 12, 1, 0],
     [0, -3, 6, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [0, 0, 0, -1, 1, -6, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [0, 2, 2, -3, -3, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0],
     [12, 12, 6, -6, 6, 0, 0, -12, -2, 0, -1],
     [0, 1, -2, 3, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -1, -6, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 2, -12],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, -12, -2],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0],
     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -1]] : List (List ℤ)).getD i []).getD s 0)

def eA : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([1, 0, 0, 0] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def eB : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([0, 1, 0, 0] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def eC : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([-2, -1, 1, 0] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def eD : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([-1, 2, 0, 1] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def sA : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([1, 0, 2, 1] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def sB : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([0, 1, 1, -2] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def sC : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([0, 0, 1, 0] : List ℤ).getD t 0
def sD : ℕ → ℤ := fun t => ([0, 0, 0, 1] : List ℤ).getD t 0

def dual (tt t : ℕ) : ℤ :=
  if tt = 0 then sA t else if tt = 1 then sB t else if tt = 2 then sC t else sD t

/-- Window entry: coordinate `t` of the window-`m` part of state `i`. -/
def EW (i m t : ℕ) : ℤ :=
  if i = 1 then eA t
-- 3166 more lines, see https://jig.so/p/
```

- Canonical statement

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Complex.Basic
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Fin
import Mathlib.Algebra.Star.Basic

/-!
# MinUPB224kMinus1 — Chen–Johnston open case (1), the general-`k` question

Chen & Johnston, *Minimal and maximal unextendible product bases*, Commun. Math. Phys. **333**
(2015) 351–365 (= arXiv:1301.1406v1), §6 "Outlook", list as open case (1):

> `d₁ = d₂ = 2, d₃ = 4k−1`: It was shown in [Fen06] that `fm(2,2,4k−1) = fN(2,2,4k−1)+1`
> when `k = 1`, but the proof technique does not seem to generalize straightforwardly to
> the `k ≥ 2` case.

Here `f_m(d₁,…,d_p)` is the minimum cardinality of an unextendible product basis of
`C^{d₁} ⊗ ⋯ ⊗ C^{d_p}`, and `f_N(2,2,4k−1) = 1 + (2−1) + (2−1) + (4k−1−1) = 4k+1`, so the
conjectured value is `4k+2`.

The matching **lower** bound `f_m(2,2,4k−1) ≥ 4k+2` is already a published theorem, for every
`k ≥ 1`: Alon & Lovász, *Unextendible product bases*, J. Combin. Theory Ser. A **95** (2001)
169–179, Corollary 4.1(i) — if some `kᵢ` is even and `n = 1 + Σ(kᵢ−1)` is odd then
`f_m(k₁,…,k_m) > n`; here `n = 4k+1` is odd and `k₁ = 2` is even.

So the entire open content of case (1) is the **existence** half, and that is what this
statement says: for every `k ≥ 2` there are `4k+2` product states in `C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^{4k−1}`
that are pairwise orthogonal and admit no orthogonal product state. Conditional on the cited
Alon–Lovász corollary, this statement is equivalent to `f_m(2,2,4k−1) = 4k+2` for all `k ≥ 2`.

## Reading the formalisation

A product state `|u⟩⊗|w⟩⊗|z⟩` is recorded by its three factors; no tensor product is formed.
The inner product is the standard Hermitian one, conjugate-linear in the first slot, so
`⟨ψᵢ|ψⱼ⟩ = ⟨uᵢ|uⱼ⟩⟨wᵢ|wⱼ⟩⟨zᵢ|zⱼ⟩` is the displayed triple product. (The convention is not
load-bearing: both orthogonality and non-orthogonality are invariant under conjugating the
whole expression.)

* clause 1–3: every factor is nonzero, so every `|ψᵢ⟩` is a nonzero product state;
* clause 4: the `4k+2` states are pairwise orthogonal;
* clause 5: **unextendibility** — for every nonzero product vector `|a⟩⊗|b⟩⊗|c⟩` there is
  some `i` with `⟨ψᵢ|a⊗b⊗c⟩ ≠ 0`. Equivalently the orthocomplement of the span contains no
  nonzero product vector.

The usual extra requirement that a UPB span a *proper* subspace is automatic at these
parameters and is therefore not restated: pairwise-orthogonal nonzero vectors are linearly
independent, so the span has dimension exactly `4k+2`, and `4k+2 < 4(4k−1) = dim` for every
`k ≥ 2`. That arithmetic fact is filed separately as `UPBProperSpan224k`.

## What is known at pose time

`k = 1` (`d₃ = 3`) is Feng, Discrete Appl. Math. **154** (2006) 942–949, and is outside the
scope of this statement. For `k = 2, 3, 4` there are explicit exact computational certificates
— `f_m(2,2,7) = 10`, `f_m(2,2,11) = 14`, `f_m(2,2,15) = 18` — from a prior campaign
(`jig.so/reports/41`, independently re-checked in `jig.so/reports/41b`), but none of them is
machine-verified against this statement yet. Every `k ≥ 5` is untouched.

## How to attack a single case

Unextendibility is a finite check, but the naive form is `3^n` rank computations — one per
assignment of the `n` indices to the three parties — which is `3^10 = 59049` already at
`k = 2` and `3^22 ≈ 3.1·10^10` at `k = 5`. That does not fit in a kernel. Use instead:

* For nonzero `a : C²` the states it annihilates are exactly those whose `uᵢ` lies on a single
  line, so the `u`-directions partition the index set into parallel classes and `a` kills one
  class or none; likewise `b` for the `w`-directions. So it suffices to check, for each pair
  `(A,B)` of a `u`-class (or `∅`) and a `w`-class (or `∅`), that `{zᵢ : i ∉ A ∪ B}` spans
  `C^(4k−1)`. Spanning is monotone in the index set, so only the maximal removals matter.
* Since `4k+2 = (4k−1) + 3`, every such `A ∪ B` must have at most `3` elements. Hence every
  parallel class has size at most `2`, and the construction has no slack anywhere.
* Certify each spanning condition rather than searching for it: give `4k−1` surviving indices
  `T`, an integer matrix `N`, and a nonzero integer `m` with `Z_T · N = m · I`, where `Z_T` has
  the `zᵢ, i ∈ T` as rows. Ranks of a rational matrix agree over `ℚ`, `ℝ` and `ℂ`, so an
  integer-entry witness may be certified entirely over `ℚ`.

## Known barriers

* Chen–Johnston's own Theorem 1 needs `d_p − 1 ≥ Σ_{j<p}(d_j − 1) ≥ 3`; for `(2,2,d)` that sum
  is `2`, so the whole family sits exactly one below their threshold, and their Theorem 3
  recovers only `d₃ ≡ 1 (mod 4)`.
* The Alon–Lovász route through orthogonal representations (their Theorem 3.1: `f_m = n` iff
  `K_n` admits an `(n−k₁,…,n−k_m)`-connected edge colouring) is an *iff only in the tight case*
  `f_m = n`. Here `f_m = n+1`, so that equivalence does not apply.
* Lovász–Saks–Schrijver give no efficient deterministic construction of a general-position
  orthogonal representation, so the genericity route yields existence, not vectors.
-/

namespace Statements.MinUPB224kMinus1

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

For every integer `k ≥ 2` there exist `4k+2` nonzero product states
`|uᵢ⟩ ⊗ |wᵢ⟩ ⊗ |zᵢ⟩ ∈ C² ⊗ C² ⊗ C^(4k−1)` which are pairwise orthogonal and which no
nonzero product state is orthogonal to. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ k : ℕ, 2 ≤ k →
    ∃ u : Fin (4 * k + 2) → Fin 2 → ℂ,
    ∃ w : Fin (4 * k + 2) → Fin 2 → ℂ,
    ∃ z : Fin (4 * k + 2) → Fin (4 * k - 1) → ℂ,
      (∀ i, u i ≠ 0) ∧
      (∀ i, w i ≠ 0) ∧
      (∀ i, z i ≠ 0) ∧
      (∀ i j, i ≠ j →
        (∑ r, star (u i r) * u j r) *
        (∑ r, star (w i r) * w j r) *
        (∑ r, star (z i r) * z j r) = 0) ∧
      (∀ a : Fin 2 → ℂ, a ≠ 0 → ∀ b : Fin 2 → ℂ, b ≠ 0 →
        ∀ c : Fin (4 * k - 1) → ℂ, c ≠ 0 →
        ∃ i,
          (∑ r, star (u i r) * a r) *
          (∑ r, star (w i r) * b r) *
          (∑ r, star (z i r) * c r) ≠ 0)

/-- 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.MinUPB224kMinus1
```

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