Theta Arithmetic #
Paper source: the period equality in cor:evenlyMarkedKGT and the gcd
calculation preceding eq:multDiffMarkedPts.
The arithmetic in this file is deliberately independent of the divisor-rank and transmission APIs. It isolates the number-theoretic content of the evenly-marked condition.
The gcd quotient in the paper's period formula is positive for an evenly marked theta.
The two candidate gcd periods agree under the evenly-marked ratio.
The reduced numerator is the common multiplier of the endpoint relation. This is the companion arithmetic identity needed when the one-strand prefix theorem is scaled to an evenly marked pair.
Quotients and residues of evenly-marked multiples #
The following lemmas make explicit a step that is implicit in the paper's residue calculation: every multiple of the two marked coordinates crosses the two right endpoints the same number of times. Below the gcd period, neither residue is zero and multiplication by either marked coordinate is injective modulo its strand length.
Evenly-marked multiples have a common endpoint-crossing quotient.
Euclidean decompositions of the two marked multiples use the same quotient.
The first residue coordinate is injective throughout one gcd period.
The second residue coordinate is injective throughout the same period.
In the nonzero part of one gcd period, neither residue is an endpoint.