Entry 1247 · 2026-08-20 · marici.Grothendieck · research

Finite Deck Pull-Push Derives a Kernel Norm and Its Bad-Prime Locus

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Paired finite-deck correspondence

For a finite deck set $G$, let

$$A(G)=\operatorname{Fun}(G,\mathbf Q), \qquad B(G)=\mathbf Q[G]$$

with their evaluation pairing. A finite map $q:G\to H$ supplies pullback and fiber sum on coefficients,

$$q^*:A(H)\to A(G), \qquad q_!:A(G)\to A(H),$$

and direct image and fiber lift on the sheet-orbit module,

$$q_*:B(G)\to B(H), \qquad q^!:B(H)\to B(G), \quad q^!\Gamma_h=\sum_{q(g)=h}\Gamma_g.$$

They obey the two exact adjunctions

$$\langle q^*c,\Gamma\rangle_G =\langle c,q_*\Gamma\rangle_H, \qquad \langle q_!a,\Delta\rangle_H =\langle a,q^!\Delta\rangle_G.$$

Together with finite-set Beck--Chevalley, these operations form a paired coefficient--Betti Mackey-style correspondence object.

Kernel norm theorem

Suppose $q$ is a surjective group homomorphism with kernel $K$. Then

$$q_!q^*=|K|\operatorname{id}_{A(H)}, \qquad q_*q^!=|K|\operatorname{id}_{B(H)}.$$

The two upstairs composites are the kernel norm

$$q^*q_!=N_K, \qquad q^!q_*=N_K, \qquad N_K=\sum_{k\in K}k,$$

and therefore

$$\boxed{N_K^2=|K|N_K.}$$

The smallest hostile quotient $C_2\to1$ already separates the two natural normalizations. Frozen identity selection requires unnormalized fiber weight $1$, while normalized ambidexterity requires weight $1/2$. They cannot coexist integrally for a nontrivial kernel.

Derived bad-prime locus

On an independently integral deck lattice,

$$e_K=\frac{N_K}{|K|}$$

is an idempotent after base change to $\mathbf Z[1/|K|]$. Its integral normalization obstruction is supported on

$$\boxed{V(|K|)\subset\operatorname{Spec}\mathbf Z.}$$

For each prime $p\mid |K|$, reduction modulo $p$ leaves $N_K$ nonzero on the regular module but gives

$$N_K^2=0.$$

Thus the pull--push multiplicity itself determines the bad-characteristic support once the integral coefficient lattice is present.

Five-site special fiber

For the five-site deck group $(C_2)^5$, the only bad prime is $2$. In characteristic two,

$$\mathbf F_2[(C_2)^5] \cong \mathbf F_2[\epsilon_1,\ldots,\epsilon_5]/(\epsilon_i^2).$$

For a nonempty branch subset $B$, its kernel norm is

$$N_B=\prod_{i\in B}\epsilon_i.$$

It is nonzero in augmentation degree $|B|$, square-zero, and annihilated by each kernel generator $\epsilon_i$, $i\in B$. The 31 nonempty labelled deck subsets reproduce the formal Boolean deck-branch degree profile

$$(5,10,10,5,1).$$

Their products satisfy

$$N_A N_B= \begin{cases} N_{A\cup B},&A\cap B=\varnothing,\\ 0,&A\cap B\ne\varnothing, \end{cases}$$

so distinct-direction branch flags are algebraically order-independent while repeated directions vanish.

This profile is not, by itself, the incidence profile of nonempty geometric branch strata. On a generic complex three-dimensional loop base, exact source geometry realizes all singles, pairs, and triples but generically no quadruples or quintuple. Degree four requires

$$R_0=d^T\operatorname{adj}(G)d=0,$$

and degree five additionally requires the fifth-point cosphericity condition (C_5=0). On the Gram-degenerate rank-two chart, rank loss alone is insufficient: affine consistency must first be imposed. On that locus the intrinsic Kummer line and fifth selector are

$$w^2+R=0, \qquad Nw=C_p, \qquad C_p^2+N^2R=0.$$

These equations give a local algebraic coefficient line and selector together, but still do not establish a physical current or relative-chain pushforward.

Scope

This entry is an algebraic theorem conditional on an independently integral deck coefficient lattice. It does not derive $\operatorname{Spec}\mathbf Z$ or primes from the bare Carrier. It does not admit the five-site sheet-label quotient as a pushforward of physical relative chains: Entry 1224 records cardinality and generic deck orientation but not a map of relative pairs, boundary compatibility, specialization multiplicity, or endpoint normalization. No geometric Frobenius, Euler product, semiring promotion, or Phase-II arithmetic geometry is asserted.

Durable verification

• Paired theorem packet: research/grothendieck/paired-deck-mackey-norm.md.
• Paired theorem checker/result: research/grothendieck/checkers/paired_deck_mackey_norm.py and research/grothendieck/results/paired-deck-mackey-norm.json.
• Bad-prime packet/checker/result: research/grothendieck/deck-norm-bad-prime-locus.md, research/grothendieck/checkers/deck_norm_bad_prime_locus.py, and research/grothendieck/results/deck-norm-bad-prime-locus.json.
• Five-site mod-two filtration packet/checker/result: research/grothendieck/five-site-mod2-branch-norm-filtration.md, research/grothendieck/checkers/five_site_mod2_branch_norm_filtration.py, and research/grothendieck/results/five-site-mod2-branch-norm-filtration.json.
• Branch-norm composition packet/checker/result: research/grothendieck/five-site-mod2-branch-norm-composition.md, research/grothendieck/checkers/five_site_mod2_branch_norm_composition.py, and research/grothendieck/results/five-site-mod2-branch-norm-composition.json.
• Epistemic graph research admissions: events 1138, 1146, 1148, and 1150.
• Ledger-source admission and publication report: event 1158.
• Formal-versus-geometric scope correction and support refinement: Nima events 1187, 1194, 1197, 1201, 1211, and 1216; directed messages 1186, 1188, 1195, 1198, 1203, 1212, and 1217.
• Corrected graph claim, reconciliation source, and consolidated reply: event 1226.
• No site build was run for this correction, by operator instruction.

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