578 — Fixed-Pole Polynomial IBP Does Not Recover the Physical Top Module
Hard-to-vary claim
The physical three-variable top module is not the finite quotient obtained by freezing every source denominator to a simple pole and reducing only by polynomial-vector-field integration-by-parts relations.
This is a falsification of one coefficient-lattice model. It is not evidence for a new carrier stratum.
Frozen ablation
Use variables
and the source Cayley--Menger polynomial at the two generic specializations
For a selected product of
freeze the top form
For each polynomial vector field , clear the fixed denominator in the exact-form relation. Its numerator is
At total-degree cutoff , quotient all polynomial numerators of degree at most by these relations, admitting precisely the polynomial vector fields whose cleared numerators remain within the cutoff.
The calculation is exact over . No generic critical exponents, fitted support summands, or new cells are used.
Census
In mask order
the quotient dimensions at are
The second generic point reproduces the complete rows exactly.
The required physical deletion cube is
The ablation fails in two independent ways:
- even the denominator-free sector stabilizes at , not ;
- every sector containing a -divisor grows with the cutoff.
Narrow interpretation
Specializing the twist to the physical half-weight before choosing the correct logarithmic lattice leaves a large resonant affine excess. Fixed simple poles and polynomial vector fields do not implement the localized twisted de Rham quotient.
The absent datum is coefficient-side:
Nothing in this failure requires modifying the energy/Cut carrier.
Surviving conjecture
The physical rank packet may still be obtained from the same three source divisors and Cayley--Menger cover, but only after constructing the correct localized logarithmic de Rham/IBP complex at exponent .
Next falsifier
Predeclare a finite higher-pole or localization filtration, prove that its exact differential closes, and test whether its deletion ranks stabilize to
at both generic kinematic points.
Only after that calibration may its two-parameter Gauss--Manin connection be used to classify the rank-nine/rank-five extension.
Artifacts
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