Basic periodicity lemmas for marked banana transmission #
These lemmas are graph-independent. They isolate the part of the paper's torsion-periodicity argument that follows solely from linear equivalence, before any banana rank computation is used.
Simultaneously increasing the two transmission coordinates by a torsion
order changes a marked twist by the principal divisor k (u - v).
The ranks of corresponding marked twists are periodic at every torsion witness.
The only way the marked rank second difference can be negative. This is the rank-pattern criterion used throughout the paper's submodularity proofs.
Because AllSubmodular quantifies over every divisor already, its
apparently two-level definition is equivalent to pointwise nonnegativity of
the marked rank second difference.
Failure of all-divisor submodularity has a single negative rank-difference witness. This is the form used by the theta and higher-genus classifications.