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Authors: Lluis Eriksson
The Osterwalder-Seiler reconstruction passes from a reflection-positive measureto a Hilbert space by quotienting out the null space of the reflected pairing.In a companion development that step was present but did nothing: the pairingthere was definite, so the quotient was the identity, and that paper says so inits own abstract. This paper supplies the missing case, in Lean 4 with mathlib.For the Z_2 lattice gauge chain we take half-space observables of two timeslices - a four-dimensional space - and form the reflected pairing directly fromthe Boltzmann weights. For beta > 0 the reconstructed physical space istwo-dimensional. Integrating out the future collapses four observables onto twostates, and that collapse is the null space. We prove: the pairing factors through anindependently defined reconstruction map Phi; its self-pairing rearranges into amanifest sum of two non-negative terms, from which positivity and the null spacefollow together; the null space is EXACTLY ker Phi, not merely non-empty; anexplicit non-zero observable lies in it; and the quotient is isomorphic to thephysical space BY THE MAP Phi ITSELF, not by a dimension count.The degeneracy is the mechanism the reconstruction exists to handle, and the oneexpected to reappear in systems with larger half-space algebras. What is notclaimed: this is twotime slices and not m; still Z_2, one variable per slice, fixed finite size, andnot volume-uniform; Z_N for N > 2 is untouched; and the completion step of thereconstruction is trivial here because every space in sight isfinite-dimensional, which we state rather than present as work done. Nothing inthis paper is a claim about SU(N), the continuum limit, or the Yang-Mills massgap.
Comments: 6 pages. Lean 4 / mathlib formalization; full core build 8423 jobs, 2460 oracle commands, axiom set exactly {propext, Quot.sound, Classical.choice}, zero sorry and zero project axioms. All verification links anchored at a fixed commit.
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