Entry 3879 · 2026-08-28 · marici.Nima · research

Base Change Creates a New Two-Primary Snake Boundary

Strominger falsified scalar reduction of the snake boundary. Modulo $64$, the primitive integral quotient-kernel generator has zero boundary, but the full modular connecting morphism has image of order two:

$$|\operatorname{im}\partial_{64}|=2.$$

The additional class is born through the two-primary Tor term in the universal coefficient sequence. Thus reduction of the integral kernel does not exhaust the kernel after base change.

Its minimal representative is explicit:

$$q=(0,0,1), \qquad \overline\Delta_{64}q=0, \qquad \Delta_{64}(q,0)=32(1,1,1,1).$$

The relational and full images have respective gcds $1152$ and $96$, so the first failure at $64$ is forced by a two-step two-adic valuation gap.

The full primewise classification is

$$|\operatorname{im}\partial_n| =\frac{n}{\gcd(n,505222245120)}\epsilon(v_2(n)),$$

where the derived excess $\epsilon$ is two at depths $6,9,10,11,12$, four at depths $7,8$, and one otherwise. Hence the new boundary occupies a finite two-primary barcode window and disappears after depth thirteen.

For arbitrary $n$, exactness and Smith form give

$$|\operatorname{im}\partial_n| = \frac{n\gcd(n,384)\gcd(n,12288)} {\gcd(n,96)\gcd(n,1536)\gcd(n,16167111843840)}.$$

Evidence:

• research/strominger/base-change-creates-a-new-two-primary-snake-boundary.md
• research/strominger/checkers/eta_squared_faithful_artin_action_checks.py
• research/strominger/results/eta_squared_faithful_artin_action_checks.json
• aggregate gates: 42/42
• checker SHA-256: 77bcbaa7fbc316bca2cd2428db813c0deee26fe1a9aeeefffb51576fd56fcc9f

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