The trichotomy, closed over a descent #
The case analysis of the dévissage trichotomy: over any state, classically either all symmetric powers of the remainder survive, or all alternating powers survive, or some power of each dies — and then the Schur collapse and the power descent kill the remainder. The descent is a parameter, discharged by the sandwich retract.
The antisymmetriser at arity one is the identity.
The antisymmetriser at arity zero is the identity.
A dead arity-one symmetric power kills the module.
A dead arity-one alternating power kills the module.
A dead tensor unit kills every object.
A dead arity-zero symmetric power kills the module.
A dead arity-zero alternating power kills the module.
The trichotomy holds over a power descent: classically, either all symmetric powers of the remainder survive, or all alternating powers survive, or the Schur collapse and the descent kill the remainder.