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feat(proofs): complete CNO + OND pillars, verified across six provers (#100)
## Summary Completes **both pillars** of Absolute Zero and makes every prover reproducible in one gate. `proofs/verify-all-provers.sh` builds all of them and prints **`ALL-PROVERS-GREEN`**: Coq · Agda · Lean 4 (+Mathlib) · Z3 · Isabelle/HOL · Mizar, plus the Idris 2 ABI. ### OND pillar (disclosure) — new, zero axioms - `OND-1..5` proved in Coq (`proofs/coq/ond/OND.v`, every theorem *Closed under the global context*), mirrored in Lean 4, Agda, and Z3 (bounded instances). - `OND-3` independence anchored to the real core `is_CNO`. - Only OND-6 (conditional composition, research capstone) left open by design. ### CNO pillar (effect) — axiom discharge, 98 → small classified remainder - filesystem 26→0, category 1→0, QuantumMechanicsExact 2→0; QuantumCNO 41→12. - Removed two latent-unsound axioms (`no_cloning` provably false; `Cconj_Cexp` false). - Physical postulates kept + tagged METAL-BOUNDARY; `state_dec` kept (nat→nat undecidable eq). - Honest class-A remainder, openly labelled: `y_not_cno`, `CNOT_gate_unitary`, `unitary_inverse_property`, `fidelity_bound`. ### Other provers / ABI - Isabelle `CNO.thy` repaired + `OND.thy` added (session ROOT). - Mizar `CNO.miz` verifies (empty `.err`). - Idris ABI: packaging + six latent type errors fixed; builds clean. ## Decisions worth owner ratification (draft) 1. OND model shape ({output,timing} observable; observer sees produced trace, not raw secret). 2. Accepting the class-A axiom remainder vs. building tensor/finite-dim QM + coinductive β machinery. 3. Removed unsound `no_cloning`/`Cconj_Cexp` and two unused non-compiling ABI `DecEq` instances. ## Test `proofs/verify-all-provers.sh` → `ALL-PROVERS-GREEN`. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Rust build outputs in subdirectories (e.g. fuzz/target/)
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# Coq coq_makefile artifacts (generated by verify-all-provers.sh / manual builds)
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# Mizar verifier outputs (keep only source: the .miz article + private .voc vocabulary)
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// SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0
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// Copyright (c) Jonathan D.A. Jewell <j.d.a.jewell@open.ac.uk>
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= absolute-zero — Proof Status
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[abstract]
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absolute-zero formalises the CNO (Conservation-of-Negative-information / "absolute
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zero") principle across several domains and provers. This records the *actually
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reproduced* verification state in this environment, prover by prover, and is
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explicit about what was NOT re-verified here.
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absolute-zero formalises *two co-equal pillars* (see `docs/TWO-PILLARS.adoc`):
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*CNO* — Certified Null Operations (certified null *effect*) — and *OND* —
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Observational Null Disclosure (certified null *disclosure*). This document
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records the *actually reproduced* verification state in this environment, prover
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by prover, and is explicit about which axioms remain and why.
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[IMPORTANT]
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.2026-07-07 — both pillars machine-checked across six provers
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====
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All six provers are installed and were *reproduced in this environment*. A single
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gate, `proofs/verify-all-provers.sh`, builds every prover and prints
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`ALL-PROVERS-GREEN`: *Coq, Agda, Lean 4 (+Mathlib), Z3, Isabelle/HOL, Mizar*,
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plus the *Idris 2* ABI. Both the CNO and OND pillars are covered.
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== Coq — VERIFIED (this environment)
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* `coqc` **8.18.0**; clean build from scratch (all `.vo`/`.glob` deleted first),
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via a `coq_makefile` project over every theory with `-R common CNO -R malbolge Malbolge`.
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* Result: **13/13 theories compile, zero errors.**
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via `coq_makefile -f _CoqProject` over **14/14 theories → zero errors**.
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* Reproduce: `cd proofs/coq && coq_makefile -f _CoqProject -o Makefile.all && make -f Makefile.all -j`.
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|===
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| lambda | `LambdaCNO.v`
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| filesystem| `FilesystemCNO.v`
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| physics | `StatMech.v`, `StatMech_helpers.v`, `LandauerDerivation.v`
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| ond | `OND.v` (NEW — the disclosure pillar)
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| malbolge | `MalbolgeCore.v`
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Imports are Coq stdlib only (`Reals`, `micromega`/`Lra`/`Psatz`, `Lia`,
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`FunctionalExtensionality`, `ProofIrrelevance`, …) — no external library (no
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Coquelicot/MathComp). Reproduce: `cd proofs/coq && make -f Makefile.coq` (the
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repo build) covers `common` + `malbolge`; the full set builds with the per-area
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`coqc -R common CNO` invocations in the Justfile `build-coq` recipe.
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=== CNO axiom discharge (2026-07-07)
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The CNO domain modules previously *axiomatised* their headline results. They have
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been re-grounded on concrete models and re-proved. Axiom/`Parameter`/`Conjecture`
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count fell from **98** to a small, classified remainder:
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* *Fully discharged to zero project axioms*: `FilesystemCNO.v` (13 axioms + 3
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parameters → 0; `mkdir_rmdir_inverse`, `transaction_cno`, `snapshot_restore_identity`,
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… all `Closed under the global context`), `CNOCategory.v` (identity/hom functor
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constructed), `QuantumMechanicsExact.v` (X-gate unitarity proved; density matrix
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defined).
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* `QuantumCNO.v`: 41 → 12. *19 axioms discharged, 8 parameters concretised*; **two
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latent-unsound axioms removed** (`no_cloning` was provably false in the flat
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model; `Cconj_Cexp` false for a genuine phase). Remainder = 2 tagged
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metal-boundary physics postulates + 4 honestly-labelled class-A items (below).
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* `LambdaCNO.v`: `compile_lambda` and `hom_functor` (in `CNOCategory.v`) concretised;
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**a third latent-unsound axiom corrected** — `eta_equivalence` was *false as
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stated* (counterexample `f = LVar 5`, a normal form that never β-reduces to `f`;
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root cause: this file's `subst` does not re-index under binders). It is replaced by
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the honest, proved theorem `eta_equivalence` guarded by a `no_lambda body`
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hypothesis (a genuine statement-shape change, disclosed in-file, made to remove an
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inconsistency risk — not to dodge a proof).
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* Physics (`StatMechBasis.v`, `PhysicsConstants.v`, `StatMech.v`,
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`LandauerDerivation.v`): derivable lemmas discharged; the genuine *physical
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postulates* kept and tagged `METAL-BOUNDARY AXIOM` — Boltzmann constant `kB` and
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`kB > 0`, absolute `temperature > 0`, the Second Law, Landauer's 1961 bound.
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These are empirical physics and *must* remain axioms; `state_dec` is kept because
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=== Honestly-remaining axioms (class A — true, provable in principle, not yet machine-proved)
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of these, each documented in-file with its blocker:
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* `LambdaCNO.v` — `y_not_cno` (`~ is_lambda_CNO y_combinator`). True (Y diverges),
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single-file fix.
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* `QuantumCNO.v` — `CNOT_gate_unitary` (needs a 4-dimensional tensor model),
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`unitary_inverse_property` (needs finite-dimensional linear algebra), `fidelity_bound`
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/ `approximate_cno` (need a concrete fidelity). All out of reach of the flat
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`nat -> C` single-qubit model; faithful discharge is a separate formalisation.
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assumed. `Print Assumptions` on every headline theorem shows only Coq stdlib axioms
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(`ClassicalDedekindReals.*`, `functional_extensionality*`) plus, where relevant, the
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== OND — VERIFIED (this environment), the disclosure pillar
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`proofs/coq/ond/OND.v` discharges roadmap obligations *OND-1..OND-5* with **zero
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axioms** — every theorem is `Closed under the global context`:
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* OND-1 `is_OND O o` — nullity parameterised by an observation model `O` over an
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* OND-2 — `skip` is OND under *any* `O` (satisfiability);
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* OND-3 — `is_CNO ⊥ is_OND` independence, additionally anchored to the *real* core
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`is_CNO` (`writer_program_not_core_CNO`, `skip_program_is_core_CNO`);
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* OND-4 — a constant-time select operation is OND under a declared `O` (+ residue);
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The original article was machine-generated and unverifiable (277 errors); it was
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The dedicated effort has since run. *OND-1, OND-2, OND-3, OND-4, and OND-5 are
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