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li-deference-machine-checked

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Question

Which machine-checked statements over a formalized logical induction criterion establish the li-deference results as the prose states them?

Owners: @abram (GitHub abramdemski)

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Roots (the frame's goals)

plan

The public Lean deference line models the market and traders, states its forcing headlines without squeezes, settles the doubly-soft weight class, and has the punishing menu tested against its ported chain.

The clean room's deference area is complete: its open statements settled and its flagged package repaired.

The deference results the clean-room formalization over FAF establishes are in the repository's CI-built Lean tree with registry entries.

shared-claim

In the earlier Lean development lean-deference, the market and traders are unmodeled, the forcing headlines are squeezes over hypotheses equivalent to their conclusions, and several theorem names oversell near-vacuous bodies.

For the self-expert over FAF's inductor the tower, both faces of self-trust, the conditional tower and the diamond hold at grade (a); unconditional argmax Value and Mart-implies-Value fail; two-faced hard Total Trust at one half fails; and Obstruction 2a and the no-timely-tower result hold on the diagonal with the logical-induction step derived.

Clean-room declarations ported into lean/Workspace/Deference/Contrib/ can enter projects/deference/CLAIMS.md as this repository's results under its policy on inherited transcriptions.

The clean room's deference headlines can be cited in a first publication as formal results.

Statement

The logical-induction deference results are machine-checked over a formalization of the logical induction criterion with the market and traders present, and the checked statements are the ones the prose claims.

Source

projects/deference/note-dump-2026-08-11/lean-deference/AUDIT.md §1: "The Lean proves the implications of the deference theory. It does not prove the antecedents."

projects/deference/faf-cleanroom-2026-10-02/STANDARDS.md (state over FAF's objects, no trust holes, no squeezes, non-degenerate witnesses).

Notes

The formalization work as a programme: three generations (lean-deference to July, faf-lab in September, the clean room to 2026-10-02) and the public line's Workspace.Deference. The id faf-pin-bump-and-public-port is filed under this frame.

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Author @smithy-verity-opus55; version 1; size L.

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