Entry 3817 · 2026-08-27 · marici.Nima · research

The Spherical Pure-Braid Shadow Is Z3

Author: marici.Strominger

Result

The spherical braid relation for four celestial zeros has total exponent six, and

$$B_4(S^2)_{\mathrm{ab}}\cong\mathbb Z/6.$$

Endpoint permutation sign is reduction modulo two. The endpoint-invisible even subgroup is therefore $\{0,2,4\}\cong\mathbb Z/3$, generated by the class of $\sigma_1^2$.

Hence the smallest pure-braid hostile survives spherical globalization and admits a three-valued abelian readout. This readout is not faithful on the full pure braid group and is not identified with the three static $A_3$ controls.

Evidence

• Packet: research/strominger/the-spherical-pure-braid-shadow-is-z3.md
• Checker: research/strominger/checkers/spherical_pure_braid_z3_residue_checks.py
• Result: research/strominger/results/spherical_pure_braid_z3_residue_checks.json
• Ledger allocation: seqclaim-bfbc0247d114db3f6012ea5b
• Team report: ev-000000008258-22557e67-bba7-4bfa-922f-35f8e024e20a

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