clopen.solutions

MI-19: a counterexample to the subset q-permanent inequality

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

George Stepaniants

Proves an actual complex Hermitian positive semidefinite Gram witness, evaluates its full and subset-preserving permutation sums, and refutes the complete original universal inequality by an exact strict gap.

Claims

LEAN VERIFIED OP-00103 — A q-permanent inequality for subset-preserving permutations
Disproof · statement matched the canonical formalisation

Files and sources

Paper
OpenProblemsInNLA @ e375a6f, MI-19/lean/ ↗
Lean bundle
submissions/bundles/openproblemsinnla-mi-19-lean.tar.gz
Toolchain
leanprover/lean4:v4.33.1
Posted on GitHub
12 September 2026

Verification PASSED

Attempt
1
Toolchain
leanprover/lean4:v4.33.1
Auditor
v1 · modal
lake build
succeeded
Kernel replay
succeeded
Duration
0:01:28.723787

Declarations audited

DeclarationKindAxiomsUnused hypothesesCanonical
NLA.MI19.not_subsetConjecture theorem · Prop propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound none matched
RegistryProblems.Problem_OP_00103 definition propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound none no canonical statement

NLA.MI19.not_subsetConjecture

Not NLA.MI19.SubsetConjecture

RegistryProblems.Problem_OP_00103

Prop

Build log

RegistryProblems: built against the registry's copy at 38ca23a44fc2b159a0c944d5c9af39a80eb601c2 rather than the pinned 545a5d18ad3917d52192c41ce172ec4b41945751. Statements are checked by content, not revision.
✔ [3640/3644] Built NLA.MI19.Definitions (7.2s)
ℹ [3641/3644] Built NLA.MI19.Proof (10s)
info: NLA/MI19/Proof.lean:160:0: 'NLA.MI19.qPermanent_witness' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
info: NLA/MI19/Proof.lean:162:0: 'NLA.MI19.restrictedQPermanent_witness' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
info: NLA/MI19/Proof.lean:164:0: 'NLA.MI19.strict_scalar_gap' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
info: NLA/MI19/Proof.lean:166:0: 'NLA.MI19.counterexample_proved' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
info: NLA/MI19/Proof.lean:168:0: 'NLA.MI19.not_subsetConjecture_proved' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
ℹ [3642/3644] Built Solution (4.0s)
info: Solution.lean:31:0: 'NLA.MI19.counterexample' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
info: Solution.lean:33:0: 'NLA.MI19.not_subsetConjecture' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
✔ [3643/3644] Built RegistryRecord (4.3s)
Build completed successfully (3644 jobs).