1770 — The Two-Loop Character Kills the Exceptional Relative-Sign Resonance
Frozen question
Entry 1767 found a zero-exponent relative-sign slot on the exceptional divisor over a generic transverse -wall crossing. Entry 1769 found no corresponding exceptional residue in the source audit. The remaining question is whether the exceptional slot descends from a supported extension class on the original normal-crossing complement.
Labelled characters
At a transverse - crossing, order the local meridians as . The relative-sign algebraic target has character
while the resonant wall-1 source line has character
Thus the local Hom line has character
The same computation holds at a transverse - crossing, with the wall-2 source line replacing wall 1.
Exact local calculation
For the punctured bidisk, the rank-one local-system cochain complex is
The differential ranks are , hence
The exceptional meridian is the product (respectively ), so its character is . This explains the exceptional zero exponent, but the acyclic two-loop complex proves that it is a blowup-only resonance: it is not the pullback of a local class on the original two-divisor complement.
Narrow result
This gives an exact conceptual explanation for Entry 1769's vanishing source residues. No new carrier stratum or supported coefficient class is generated at generic transverse - or -.
The conclusion does not cover the deeper nontransverse factors of the exact resultants (including soft and normalization-boundary intersections), where the normal-crossing character calculation changes.
Durable evidence
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