clopen.solutions

IE-23: nonuniqueness of induced-norm-minimizing right inverses

Recorded by the registry's curators from GitHub; the authors did not submit it here.

George Stepaniants

Complete negative answer to the original direct induced p-to-2 norm uniqueness conjecture, with two distinct global minimizers at the exact admissible p=4 witness.

Claims

LEAN VERIFIED OP-00084 — Uniqueness of the right inverse minimizing an induced p-to-2 norm
Disproof · statement matched the canonical formalisation

Files and sources

Paper
OpenProblemsInNLA @ e375a6f, IE-23/lean/ ↗
Lean bundle
submissions/bundles/openproblemsinnla-ie-23-lean.tar.gz
Toolchain
leanprover/lean4:v4.33.1
Posted on GitHub
22 September 2026

Verification PASSED

Attempt
1
Toolchain
leanprover/lean4:v4.33.1
Auditor
v1 · modal
lake build
succeeded
Kernel replay
succeeded
Duration
0:01:42.381402

Declarations audited

DeclarationKindAxiomsUnused hypothesesCanonical
NLA.IE23.not_rightInverseUniqueConjecture theorem · Prop propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound none matched
RegistryProblems.Problem_OP_00084 definition propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound none no canonical statement

NLA.IE23.not_rightInverseUniqueConjecture

Not NLA.IE23.RightInverseUniqueConjecture

RegistryProblems.Problem_OP_00084

Prop

Build log

RegistryProblems: built against the registry's copy at 38ca23a44fc2b159a0c944d5c9af39a80eb601c2 rather than the pinned 545a5d18ad3917d52192c41ce172ec4b41945751. Statements are checked by content, not revision.
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ℹ [2395/2398] Built NLA.IE23.Proof (4.2s)
info: NLA/IE23/Proof.lean:105:0: 'NLA.IE23.inducedNorm_semantics_proved' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
info: NLA/IE23/Proof.lean:107:0: 'NLA.IE23.witness_matrix_identities_proved' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
info: NLA/IE23/Proof.lean:109:0: 'NLA.IE23.fourth_power_norm_control_proved' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
info: NLA/IE23/Proof.lean:111:0: 'NLA.IE23.witness_action_identities_proved' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
info: NLA/IE23/Proof.lean:113:0: 'NLA.IE23.witness_attainment_proved' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
info: NLA/IE23/Proof.lean:115:0: 'NLA.IE23.witness_norms_proved' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
info: NLA/IE23/Proof.lean:117:0: 'NLA.IE23.witness_global_minimizers_proved' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
info: NLA/IE23/Proof.lean:119:0: 'NLA.IE23.not_rightInverseUniqueConjecture_proved' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
ℹ [2396/2398] Built Solution (3.9s)
info: Solution.lean:95:0: 'NLA.IE23.inducedNorm_semantics' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
info: Solution.lean:97:0: 'NLA.IE23.witness_matrix_identities' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
info: Solution.lean:99:0: 'NLA.IE23.fourth_power_norm_control' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
info: Solution.lean:101:0: 'NLA.IE23.witness_action_identities' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
info: Solution.lean:103:0: 'NLA.IE23.witness_attainment' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
info: Solution.lean:105:0: 'NLA.IE23.witness_norms' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
info: Solution.lean:107:0: 'NLA.IE23.witness_global_minimizers' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
info: Solution.lean:109:0: 'NLA.IE23.not_rightInverseUniqueConjecture' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
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Build completed successfully (2398 jobs).