Lemma 3.5 of van Dobben de Bruyn–Smit–van der Wegen #
Part (a) is proved in full generality in Utilities/Gonality/BurnedSet.lean
(not_mem_burned_of_qReduced): a positive-rank q-reduced divisor's own base
point is never burned by a fire started at a chip-free vertex.
Part (b) is the counting half, here specialised to the spokes of the tricycle core:
if
Iis a set of spokes whose transition vertices are all burned, then{v₀} ∪ ⋃_{i ∈ I} (interior of spoke i)carries at least|I|chips.
The split is the source's own I = I₀ ⊔ I₁. For i ∈ I₀ the first vertex up
the spoke is burned; those vertices are distinct across spokes, so v₀ — which
is not burned — pays for all of them at once, giving |I₀| ≤ D(v₀). For
i ∈ I₁ the first vertex up the spoke is unburned while the far end is burned,
so the slot has a burned/unburned split and therefore a chip in its interior.
Indexing the six spokes #
Lemma 3.5(b) #
The first vertex up spoke i from the centre.
Equations
- Utilities.Tricycle.spokeStep spec i = spec.slotVertex (Utilities.Tricycle.spokeOf i) 1
Instances For
The centre is adjacent to the first vertex up each spoke.
The six first-steps are distinct vertices.
Lemma 3.5(b). A set of spokes whose transition vertices are all burned costs its cardinality in chips, counted on the centre and the spoke interiors.