Firing identities for the cross-one-off marking #
This file formalizes the chip-firing calculation behind Lemma 4.30 of
the twice-marked banana paper. Coordinates are the normalized coordinates of
strandVertex. Write L,R for the two multivalent vertices, put
u = v_{α,1}, v = v_{β,N-1}, and b = mN+r.
The common identity is
gR + au - bv ~ (a-m-2)L + (g+m-b)R + v_{α,a} + v_{β,r}.
It simultaneously fixes the residue convention and the two-off-by-one error in the printed third case. The three residue-specific corollaries below are the divisor identities needed before applying the banana normal-form rank calculus.
A multiple of the first off-endpoint mark can be replaced by one chip at
the corresponding coordinate and the remaining chips at the left endpoint.
This is the α-strand part of Lemma 4.30.
Deleting the first off-endpoint mark from a chip farther along the same strand shifts that chip one step toward the left endpoint.
Deleting the second off-endpoint mark from a chip earlier on the same strand shifts that chip one step toward the right endpoint.
If b = mN+r, a multiple of the second off-endpoint mark has the
canonical endpoint-plus-residue representative. This is the common
β-strand calculation behind all three cases of Lemma 4.30.
The common corrected firing identity for the cross-one-off marking.
The corrected residue cases of Lemma 4.30 #
Lemma 4.30(1), at a positive multiple b = mN. The theorem is only a
firing identity; the numerical hypotheses used later to identify the
transmission value are deliberately kept separate.
Lemma 4.30(2), in the unambiguous convention b+1 = mN. The
length-two, b=1 exception concerns the subsequent Δ claim, not this
firing identity.
Corrected Lemma 4.30(3), using the positive remainder convention
b = mN+r, 1 ≤ r ≤ N-2. The printed coefficient of L+R is one too
large and its complementary coordinate belongs to the other residue
convention.