Core-supported rank-one divisors on subdivisions #
The embedded core vertices of a positive subdivision are a strong separator. Thus a particularly small uniform rank-one witness is available whenever one can put a positive number of chips at every core vertex. This module records that observation without referring to a genus, a trivalence hypothesis, or a certificate search.
The first theorem is deliberately graph-theoretic: an effective divisor with at least one chip at every member of a certified strong separator has rank at least one. The subdivision theorems specialize it to the transparent divisor which is zero on every edge-interior vertex.
A positive effective representative already reaches each vertex at which it carries a chip. Consequently positivity on a strong separator proves rank at least one.
The divisor which places weight vertex chips at each embedded core
vertex and no chips at subdivision-interior vertices.
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- Utilities.Subdivision.SubdivisionCoreSupport.coreDivisor spec weight (Sum.inl vertex) = weight vertex
- Utilities.Subdivision.SubdivisionCoreSupport.coreDivisor spec weight (Sum.inr _interior) = 0
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Nonnegative core weights make the core-supported divisor effective.
The degree of the core-supported divisor is exactly the sum of its core weights; subdivision-interior vertices contribute zero.
Positive core weights on a connected positive subdivision give a rank-one divisor, uniformly over all edge lengths.
Advertise the core-supported rank-one witness at its exact total degree. This is useful for uniform families: only connectedness and positivity of the core weights remain as hypotheses.
Put one chip at every core vertex and place all remaining degree at the first core vertex. The core is nonempty by definition of a subdivision specification.
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Core-cardinality criterion. A connected subdivision with at most
degree embedded core vertices has a rank-one divisor of that degree. This
is the certificate-free form of the all-supported sparse-potential pattern.
Finite-core-facing form of the core-cardinality criterion.