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LeanPool.BrillNoetherGraphs.Bananas.Transmission.RankZeroWitness

Negative rank differences at rank zero #

This is the rank-theoretic part of Lemma 3.1(2) in the paper. The paper phrases it using supports of a chosen effective representative; the intrinsic form below avoids choosing representatives and is exactly what the later reduced-divisor calculation consumes.

At rank zero, a negative marked second difference says precisely that each one-chip deletion remains winnable while the two-chip deletion is not. This formulation is invariant under changing the divisor within its linear equivalence class.