Atanasov--Ranganathan's eleventh configuration, generic in the core #
This is the eleventh local picture of Atanasov--Ranganathan, Proposition 5.1
(fig:configurations-for-genus-5, the scope commented %Eleventh): a triangle
of chip-free vertices closed off by a banana, with one chip arm at each corner
and a fourth chip sitting on the near banana vertex.
A1 B1 C1
| alpha | beta | gamma
A ---- S ---- B ---- u ---- Q ==m₁,m₂== P ---- w ---- C
| |
+------------------- t ------------------------------+
Chip-free: the apex A, the two banana-side vertices B and C, and the far
banana vertex P. Chips: the three arm ends A1, B1, C1, and Q. The
slots are A-B (S), A-C (t), B-Q (u), C-P (w), the banana
P = Q (m₁, m₂), and the three arms alpha, beta, gamma.
The solid subgraph of both scopes of the ninth family (atlas row 10) is this
picture, in the special position where the apex arm equals the C arm. In the
formal script, the chip on the banana is lifted with the chip-free banana
vertex: if Q stayed at the ambient level
while P rose, Q would pay one chip along each of the two parallel slots
and has only one. That is the same mechanism as
ConfigurationBananaTail (AR's sixth picture), and the profiles below mirror
its E / D / C nested minima term for term.
The hypothesis, and its orientation #
Everything below assumes
alpha = gamma ≤ beta
--- the apex arm equals the C arm, and both are at most the B arm. Every
row-10 chamber supplies exactly this: the chamber's first inequality places the
interior chip so that alpha = gamma = min(a,b,c), and its second inequality is
gamma ≤ beta. Only gamma appears below, standing for both arms.
The hypothesis is orientation-specific. Row 10 uses only the
alpha = gamma orientation, so that is the version stated here.
The three profiles #
Everything off the picture, and the three arm chips, sit at height 0. Write
pq = min m₁ m₂ mB = min beta (gamma + S) G = gamma + w
E = min G (mB + u + pq) D = min E (mB + u) C = min D mB
for the target-P heights --- these are literally ConfigurationBananaTail's
E / D / C under the substitution m ↦ mB, |cd| ↦ u, |ef| ↦ G, the far
route being two slots here (C1 ⟶ C ⟶ P) because C is chip free and carries
its own arm. Then
targets A and C: h A = h B = h C = h P = h Q = gamma (one script, two targets)
target B: h A = h C = h P = h Q = gamma,
h B = min mB (gamma + u)
target P: h A = h C = gamma, h B = C, h Q = D, h P = E
Every height is a nested minimum of slot lengths, so it collapses along with any
slot it spans and the same script works on every nonloopy forest face, exactly
as in ConfigurationFive.
The shift #
When u collapses, B and Q are one class and Q's two outgoing banana
chips have to be paid for out of B's resources. The row's chip bookkeeping
therefore carries one conditional transfer B ⟶ Q, guarded by u = 0 ∧ D < E;
it appears below as the parameter shift, exactly as in
ConfigurationBananaTail. The other collapses are handled by the row's owner
choice rather than by a transfer: when S = 0 the apex A lies in B's class
and already carries the delivered chip, and when w = 0 the vertex C lies in
P's class and does.
Everything is stated against ConfigurationMarkedThree.PairLedger, so a row
instantiates each statement in whichever direction its core happens to orient
the slot, and so that an arm may be the half of a marked slot --- which is how
row 10 supplies alpha = gamma in the first place. The one-edge arithmetic is
ConfigurationFive's, reused unchanged.
Two ledger facts the profiles below use #
PairLedger states the full-ramp fact only at base height zero; both the A-B
slot and the C-P slot are climbed from the ambient height gamma, so the
general form is needed.
A full slot delivers a chip at its upper end, from any base height; a collapsed slot has already delivered it by contraction.
A chip leaf gives away at most the single chip it carries.
The apex A and the far vertex C #
Both carry a full arm of length gamma -- that is the whole content of the
hypothesis alpha = gamma -- one slot to a neighbour that may sit higher (B
across S at A; P across w at C), and one slot to a neighbour that is
always at the same height (the A-C slot t, whose two ends carry gamma in
every profile).
Both flat neighbours: the chip is delivered. Used at A and C for
the flat profile, and at the vertex that owns the delivered chip when the slot
to the possibly-higher neighbour collapses.
One higher neighbour: still effective. The full arm pays for the single chip the higher neighbour draws.
The apex under the target-P profile. It gives up one chip to B's
class when the A-B slot collapses -- that is the transfer which funds
zeroChip S in armCenter_nonneg below.
The vertex B under the target-B profile #
B alone rises, to min beta (min (gamma + S) (gamma + u)): it may not outrun
its own chip B1, may not draw more than the one chip A's full arm delivers,
and may not draw more than the single chip sitting at Q. Whichever of the
three caps is attained is a full slot at B, so B gains a chip.
The target B is reached, whenever neither of the two slots at B has
collapsed. When S = 0 the apex lies in B's class and owns the chip
(armFull_ge_one); when u = 0 the chip at Q does.
The target-P profile #
Three nested minima, ConfigurationBananaTail's verbatim:
E = min G (mB + u + pq) -- the far banana vertex P
D = min E (mB + u) -- the chip Q
C = min D mB -- the chip-free B
with mB = min beta (gamma + S) -- B's two resources, its own arm or the
apex's full arm followed by the full A-B slot -- and G = gamma + w, the far
route C1 ⟶ C ⟶ P, which is two slots here because C is chip free.
The comparisons every statement of this section runs on.
Residual effectivity at B. If B sits strictly below Q it pays one
chip along the B-Q slot, and then its height is attained at one of its two
resources, which therefore delivers one. The shift is the transfer to Q's
class when the B-Q slot has collapsed.
Residual effectivity at the chip Q. It gives one chip away along each
banana slot whenever P rises above it, and is refilled along the B-Q slot
or, when that slot has collapsed, by the shift.
Q owns the delivered chip when a banana slot has collapsed: then P and
Q are one class and no rise crosses the banana at all.
Residual effectivity at the centre P. Every neighbour sits at or
below it.
The centre P is reached. P gains only across a full slot, and it has
exactly two routes: the C-P slot, capped by C's own residual at gamma + w,
or the shorter banana slot, which needs Q pushed up to mB + u first. When
w = 0 the vertex C lies in P's class and owns the chip instead, and when
the banana collapses the chip at Q does.