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feat(proofs): complete CNO + OND pillars, verified across six provers
Both pillars of Absolute Zero are now machine-checked end-to-end. A single gate (proofs/verify-all-provers.sh) builds every prover 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 (ond/OND.v, all Closed under the global context), mirrored in Lean 4 (OND.lean), Agda (OND.agda), and Z3 (bounded instances). - OND-3 independence anchored to the real core is_CNO. - OND-7 residue register seeded (ct_select.residue, O_all.model). - 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 (Closed under global context); QuantumCNO 41->12 (19 discharged, 8 concretised). - Removed two latent-unsound axioms (no_cloning was provably false; Cconj_Cexp false for a genuine phase). - Physics postulates (kB>0, temperature>0, Landauer, Second Law) kept and tagged METAL-BOUNDARY; state_dec kept (nat->nat not decidably equal). - Honest class-A remainder, openly labelled: y_not_cno (Y non-termination), CNOT_gate_unitary, unitary_inverse_property, fidelity_bound. Other provers / ABI: - Isabelle CNO.thy repaired (reserved `value` type; failing nop/step lemmas) and OND.thy added; session ROOT added. - Mizar CNO.miz verifies with an empty .err. - Idris ABI: packaging fixed (module paths vs sourcedir) + six latent type errors repaired; builds clean. Narrative updated alongside the maths: TWO-PILLARS and OND-ROADMAP status, PROOF-STATUS rewritten to the reproduced six-prover reality. 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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proofs/coq/Makefile.all
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# Mizar verifier outputs (keep only the .miz source article)
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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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====
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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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| 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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* 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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`Memory = nat -> nat` is not decidably equal (genuinely unprovable).
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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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but a rigorous proof must rule out reaching the argument under *every* β-congruence
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interleaving — a coinductive / step-indexed non-termination argument beyond a
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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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These are the analogue of the OND-6 research fork: openly labelled, not silently
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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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explicitly-tagged postulate above — never a hidden project axiom.
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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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observable execution (declared output channel + timing);
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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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* Toolchain `leanprover/lean4:v4.16.0` with Mathlib `@ v4.16.0`; `lake exe cache get`
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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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