clopen.solutions

IS-03: a seven-dimensional derivative-realizability counterexample

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

George Stepaniants

Complete negative answer to Johnson's original universal normalized-characteristic-polynomial derivative realizability conjecture, with genuine arbitrary-matrix trace certificates and the unchanged order-seven source witness.

Claims

LEAN VERIFIED OP-00086 — Johnson's derivative-realizability conjecture
Disproof · statement matched the canonical formalisation

Files and sources

Paper
OpenProblemsInNLA @ e375a6f, IS-03/lean/ ↗
Lean bundle
submissions/bundles/openproblemsinnla-is-03-lean.tar.gz
Toolchain
leanprover/lean4:v4.33.1
Posted on GitHub
13 September 2026

Verification PASSED

Attempt
1
Toolchain
leanprover/lean4:v4.33.1
Auditor
v1 · modal
lake build
succeeded
Kernel replay
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Duration
0:01:50.164448

Declarations audited

DeclarationKindAxiomsUnused hypothesesCanonical
NLA.IS03.not_derivativeRealizabilityConjecture theorem · Prop propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound none matched
RegistryProblems.Problem_OP_00086 definition propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound none no canonical statement

NLA.IS03.not_derivativeRealizabilityConjecture

Not NLA.IS03.DerivativeRealizabilityConjecture

RegistryProblems.Problem_OP_00086

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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info: NLA/IS03/Numerical.lean:24:0: 'NLA.IS03.numerical_negative_moment' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
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info: NLA/IS03/Newton.lean:136:0: 'NLA.IS03.product_coeff_eq_elementary' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
info: NLA/IS03/Newton.lean:137:0: 'NLA.IS03.powerMoments_newton' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
info: NLA/IS03/Newton.lean:138:0: 'NLA.IS03.power_sums_of_derivative_product' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
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info: NLA/IS03/Proof.lean:60:0: 'NLA.IS03.nonnegative_power_trace_proved' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
info: NLA/IS03/Proof.lean:61:0: 'NLA.IS03.witness_admissible_proved' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
info: NLA/IS03/Proof.lean:62:0: 'NLA.IS03.witness_polynomials_proved' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
info: NLA/IS03/Proof.lean:63:0: 'NLA.IS03.trace_moment_certificate_proved' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
info: NLA/IS03/Proof.lean:64:0: 'NLA.IS03.negative_moment_proved' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
info: NLA/IS03/Proof.lean:65:0: 'NLA.IS03.counterexample_proved' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
info: NLA/IS03/Proof.lean:66:0: 'NLA.IS03.not_derivativeRealizabilityConjecture_proved' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
ℹ [3103/3105] Built Solution (3.7s)
info: Solution.lean:64:0: 'NLA.IS03.nonnegative_power_trace' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
info: Solution.lean:65:0: 'NLA.IS03.witness_admissible' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
info: Solution.lean:66:0: 'NLA.IS03.witness_polynomials' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
info: Solution.lean:67:0: 'NLA.IS03.trace_moment_certificate' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
info: Solution.lean:68:0: 'NLA.IS03.negative_moment' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
info: Solution.lean:69:0: 'NLA.IS03.counterexample' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
info: Solution.lean:70:0: 'NLA.IS03.not_derivativeRealizabilityConjecture' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
✔ [3104/3105] Built RegistryRecord (3.5s)
Build completed successfully (3105 jobs).