The endpoint residue cases for the cross-one-off marking #
This file proves the two rank-difference calculations that complement
rankDelta_crossOneOff_two_interior_eq_one. Together they are the three
corrected residue cases used in Lemma 4.30 of the paper.
The complementary-residue calculation is stated both in its valid range and
at its unique boundary exception. At the latter boundary the second
difference is zero, not one; arithmetically that boundary is exactly the
paper's N = 2, b = 1 case.
A single chip at a normalized interior position is a semibreak divisor.
The positive-multiple residue case of corrected Lemma 4.30. The normal form consists of a right-endpoint coefficient and one interior chip on the first marked strand.
The complementary-residue normal form has second rank difference one
away from its top boundary. The strict inequality c < g - 1 is essential:
the next theorem computes the omitted boundary value as zero.
At the omitted top boundary c = g - 1, the complementary-residue
normal form has second rank difference zero. This is the formal obstruction
behind the false N = 2, b = 1 instance in the printed Lemma 4.30(2).
Under the arithmetic hypotheses of the complementary residue case, its
top normal-form coefficient occurs exactly for N = 2, m = 1, and then the
paper's row coordinate is b = 1.