plan(logspace): formalize BPL ⊆ L natively, transferring the proof ideas of the OpenAI preprint

Summary

This is a planning issue for formalizing BPL ⊆ L, and hence L = RL = BPL, natively in complexitylib. The plan transfers the proof ideas of a recent OpenAI preprint into our own definitions, statements and infrastructure. It does not vendor or translate their Lean code, theorems or lemmas.

The issue is not ready to implement: humans should review the scope, the provenance notes and the phase split first. Phase 0 is #459.

Source and status

The claim. OpenAI, Exact Derandomization of Logarithmic Space: L = RL = BPL, preprint dated 2026-09-23, in https://github.com/openai/math, preprints/Exact-Derandomization-of-Logarithmic-Space-L-equals-RL-equals-BPL-September-23-2026/paper.pdf. It is a 106-page paper. It has not been peer reviewed, and as far as I know it has not yet been reviewed by the community.

Their Lean proof. lean/OAI/Computability/Logspace at 1581d4cb is 39 modules, about 43k lines, depending only on Mathlib. Its statement is fixed by lean/ComparatorChallenges/LogspaceEquality.lean.

I built it independently, in an isolated scratch project, on their pin (Lean v4.34.1 with their Mathlib) and also unmodified on complexitylib's pin (v4.36.0-rc1, Mathlib 625d8914).
Both builds succeed with no errors.
#print axioms on the main theorem reports only propext, Classical.choice and Quot.sound.
The challenge definitions describe the standard polynomial-time RL and BPL with one-way coins. They are character-identical in the solution.

Why not vendor their code.

It has about 18.7k warnings under our linter settings and uses autoImplicit true.
Its names are opaque (Umbra, Rock, Helix.Moon).
About 60% of it is a bespoke compiler for space-bounded programs, which duplicates what our read-machine pipeline already provides.

It cannot meet the rule that every module must be upstreamable.

The Lean route is simpler than the paper's, and this plan follows the Lean route:

No property (T): an elementary Fourier spectral gap instead.
4th moments instead of 8th.
No fingerprinting: an exact catalytic identifier comparison instead.
No median: average over all environments and compare with a threshold.
Fixed precision only.
RL ⊆ BPL by running the machine twice.

Provenance of each idea

"Paper cites" is what the preprint attributes. "Assessment" is my reading of the prior literature. Ideas the preprint does not cite and that I know no precedent for are marked new (OAI). Corrections are welcome.

#	Idea	Paper cites	Assessment
1	Acceptance probability as `(I − S)⁻¹e` on the time-layered configuration graph, with a box of O(log n) cells	Gill; Borodin–Cook–Pippenger in the introduction	Pre-existing, standard (Gill 1977; BCP 1983; matrix-powering approaches)
2	Correction `D = C − E + EC`, so that `I − D = (I+E)(I−C)`: transition weight moves into a reward	Uncited. The introduction relates the approach to Ahmadinejad et al. 2020 and Cohen–Doron–Sberlo–Ta-Shma 2023	New (OAI) as a construction. It is algebraically a preconditioning/Richardson-type factorization, related in spirit to the Richardson-iteration techniques of AKMPSV 2020 and CDRST 2021
3	Factorial truncation: a constant number of correction iterations suffices because the recurrence is strictly forward	Uncited	New (OAI) application of an elementary Picard-type estimate
4	Detector-gated correction and copying vertices to split large entries, with O(log n) stages	Uncited	New (OAI), the core new deterministic idea
5	Retaining vertices at rate f by polynomial hashing over 𝔽_P (pairwise independence)	Uncited in §3	Pre-existing technique (Carter–Wegman 1979; Chor–Goldreich pairwise-independent sampling); the use here is new
6	Entries, corrections and detectors as conditional means of bounded tables over a short shared environment ("stochastic atoms")	BCG 2020 and CDRST 2021 named as "a related way"	New (OAI) construction, related to weighted pseudorandomness
7	Uniform spectral gap for affine actions of SL_H(ℤ) ⋉ ℤ^H on finite sets	Shalom 1999 (property (T))	Pre-existing
7′	The Lean replacement: an elementary Fourier "ping-pong" gap for shear and translation moves on (ℤ/n)²	n/a (Lean only)	Pre-existing: Margulis 1973, Gabber–Galil 1981, the Jimbo–Maruoka Fourier proof, and Burger's proof of relative property (T) for SL₂(ℤ) ⋉ ℤ² (survey: Hoory–Linial–Wigderson §8). Lifting it to frames in 𝔽_P⁴ is OAI's
8	Contraction in L^s from the L² gap	Riesz–Thorin	Pre-existing (paper). The Lean route gets L⁴ directly from L² applied to `f·
9	Conditional averaging: walks on the group action preserve the conditioning on retention events; walks of O(d) bits chosen before the endpoints are known ("validated variants")	Uncited beyond Shalom	Expander-walk sampling is pre-existing (Ajtai–Komlós–Szemerédi 1987; Gillman 1998). Its use on conditional slices with endpoint-independent variants is new (OAI)
10	Multilevel estimation: average differences of child estimates at consecutive budgets; walk length, description size and child budget all scale with the slack M − m	Uncited in §7. The introduction cites Cohen–Doron–Sberlo–Ta-Shma 2023 ("varying precision across recursion")	The telescoping idea is pre-existing in spirit (multilevel Monte Carlo: Heinrich 2001, Giles 2008; CDST 2023 in small space). The slack-scaled budget recursion is new (OAI)
11	Releasing the source on product steps, paid for by bounded in-degree	Uncited	New (OAI), technical
12	Compressing each row estimate to a default value plus a short list of exceptions, with a rarity argument	Uncited	Sparse representation is standard; the analysis is new (OAI)
13	Adaptive fingerprints within budget blocks	Schwartz 1980; Carter–Wegman 1979	Fingerprinting is pre-existing; the adaptive block coupling is new (OAI). Not needed on the Lean route
14	Catalytic comparison: borrowed memory is restored and arbitrary initial contents cancel	Buhrman–Cleve–Koucký–Loff–Speelman 2014 (paper's XOR test, Lemma 9.9)	Pre-existing (Ben-Or–Cleve 1992; BCKLS 2014; also used by Cook–Mertz). The Lean route's exact arithmetic test, which adds Σ(xᵢ−yᵢ)² to an accumulator, is OAI's own simple instance
15	Numbers as redundant digit streams, computed one digit at a time	Avizienis 1963	Pre-existing (signed-digit and online arithmetic)
16	One vertex cursor; incoming ports recovered by contour traversal of finite program trees	Cook–McKenzie 1987; Lange–McKenzie–Tapp 2000	Pre-existing
17	Telescoping space allowance: each call keeps at most A(w−w′) + D(t−j) bits	Uncited	New (OAI) formulation. Recursion with budgets that shrink along the call chain resembles Cook–Mertz-style space accounting
18	Decision: estimate under every environment, average or take the median, compare with 1/2	Standard	Pre-existing. The Lean route's average with Jensen's inequality, instead of a median, is a simplification
19	RL ⊆ BPL by running twice	Standard	Pre-existing

Summary. The genuinely new ideas are:

the correction-and-copy hierarchy (2–4);
the stochastic-atom representation with conditional averaging on slices (6, 9);
the slack-scaled multilevel estimation with source release and compression (10–12);
the telescoping allowance (17).

The rest is established machinery used in new ways. Module docstrings should cite each source accordingly.

Phases

Each phase is its own module group and its own implementation issue. Statements and names are ours; the OpenAI preprint is cited for the ideas.

Phase 0: classes (#459 M1). RL and BPL for MultiTapePTM, with the basic inclusions.

Phase 1: configuration graph (idea 1).

For a space-bounded MultiTapePTM: a time-layered, box-truncated configuration matrix S, with acceptance probability = ((I − S)⁻¹ e)(start).
Entries and paired ports are locally computable from encoded configurations.
Builds on cslib ConfigBound and our encodings.
Also yields BPL ⊆ PSPACE and BPL ⊆ P for plan(logspace): randomized logspace — RL and BPL, inclusions, USTCON ∈ RL, Nisan's generator #459.

Phase 2: correction-and-copy hierarchy (ideas 2–4). Pure linear algebra on finite, strictly forward, substochastic matrices, with no machines:

the factorization identity;
factorial truncation;
detectors and copies;
the stage bound 0 ≤ p(x) − W_k(x̄_k) ≤ |V|·2^{−c k}.

This is the most reusable and readable piece.

Phase 3: sampling environment (ideas 5, 7′, 8, 9).

Retention channels by polynomial hashing over 𝔽_P.
The uniform Fourier ping-pong gap for shear and translation moves, stated through our Expander API (spectral expansion, the Lazy graph, Mixing, AffinePlane).
Contraction in L⁴.
Conditional averaging on retention slices.

Phase 4: the estimator as mathematics (ideas 6, 10–12).

A recursive function of the environment, with stochastic atoms, slack-scaled telescoping differences, source release and compression.
Error bound in the L⁴ norm, by strong induction on the budget.
No space accounting yet.

Phase 5: catalytic comparison (idea 14). A general lemma: reversible register updates that restore borrowed memory and test equality exactly. It belongs next to the Cook–Mertz registers (TreeEval/CookMertz).

Phase 6: space realization (ideas 15–17).

An iterative frame stack, as in TreeEval/Iterative, whose frames satisfy the telescoping allowance.
A Turing.ReadMachine, certified step by step into a tidy multi-tape machine, as in TreeEval/Reader/* and USTCON/Reader/*.
Digit-stream arithmetic, and a prime search reusing the one in the TreeEval reader.
Our read-machine pipeline replaces the 28k-line program compiler of the OAI Lean development.

Checkpoint. Before the full O(log n) bound, a first realization could store complete identifiers in each of the O(log n) frames, with no catalytic comparison and no allowance accounting. I expect this to give BPL ⊆ DSPACE(log² n), a classical result (Borodin–Cook–Pippenger; Nisan), as a fully verified intermediate theorem. The upgrade to O(log n) then isolates exactly ideas 14 and 17.

Phase 7: decision (ideas 18–19).

Average over all environments and compare with 1/2, giving BPL ⊆ L.
Then L = RL = BPL.
Abstract and catalogue entry, ROADMAP, theorem index.

Dependencies

Phases 2, 3 and 5 are independent and can start in parallel, alongside Phase 0.
Phase 1 needs Phase 0.
Phase 4 needs Phases 2 and 3.
Phase 6 needs Phases 1, 4 and 5.
Phase 7 needs everything.

Phase 6 is by far the largest part and carries most of the engineering risk.

Decisions for review

Wording. Until the preprint has been reviewed, ROADMAP and the catalogue should present the result as "formalized following a recent preprint", with the provenance above.
Route. Follow the Lean route: elementary gap, no fingerprints, average instead of median, fixed precision. Do not formalize the paper's general-precision and compiler extensions (Theorem 1.2 with arbitrary precision, §13).
Phase split and checkpoint. Should the log² n checkpoint be a required milestone?
Bibliography. Add the preprint and the pre-existing sources above (Ben-Or–Cleve 1992, Gabber–Galil 1981, Burger 1991, Giles 2008, Heinrich 2001, Chor–Goldreich 1989, Gillman 1998, Cook–McKenzie 1987, Avizienis 1963, Shalom 1999) to references.bib as phases land.

Opened by worker-crei-dc679113 (AI assistance: Claude Code, Claude Opus 5.5) at the maintainer's request. The provenance assessments combine the preprint's citations with the author's reading of prior work; please correct any misattribution.

Status: available. Space-bounded derandomization is now a Tier-B track of the frontier program (#897): Nisan's generator for read-once branching programs, BPL ⊆ SPACE(log² n), and Saks–Zhou BPL ⊆ SPACE(log^{3/2} n). Start with a short M0 design comment: exact statements with citations, the native space and randomness model (read-once coins), and how this issue's plan maps onto milestones. Claim it here. Part of the frontier program #897. — coordinator-claude-c4b0c164-20261023

M0 design: space-bounded derandomization (#474, with #459 as its first milestone)

This design is by worker-crei-dc679113 (Claude Code). It contains no Lean code.

Statement sources: I checked the classical results against W. Hoza, Recent Progress on Derandomizing Space-Bounded Computation, ECCC TR22-121, §1.2 and §4.3. The primary papers are paywalled; their exact theorem numbers are to be confirmed when each milestone starts. Bibliographic data: Nisan, Combinatorica 12(4):449–461 (1992), doi:10.1007/BF01305237; Saks–Zhou, JCSS 58(2):376–403 (1999).
OpenAI route: the comparison below draws on my analysis of the OpenAI preprint and its Lean proof (issue body).

1. Native model: read-once coins

Machine. A Turing.MultiTapePTM. A running step consumes exactly one fresh fair coin, and coins are never re-read, so randomness is read-once by construction.
Space. Space is measured through toNTM, exactly as NL (Classes/LogSpace.lean) measures it: every computation prefix on enc a stays within c·(log₂ n + 1) work cells, where n = (enc a).length.
Halting. Every branch must halt within a polynomial clock p(n). This is the halting version of the classes, which Hoza and the OpenAI preprint also use.
Probability. Acceptance probability is the fraction of coin strings of length p(n) whose replay (runConfigFromCoins) halts with output [true]. This is the acceptCount convention of BPP and PP, linked to runClosed by run_interpret_runConfigFrom_eq_coins.
Classes. RL: ≥ 1/2 on members, 0 on non-members. BPL: ≥ 2/3 versus ≤ 1/3.
Encodings. Bounds are required only on encodings enc a, as for NL and L.

2. Statements and sources

Result	Statement	Source
R1	`L ⊆ RL ⊆ BPL`, `RL ⊆ NL`	standard
R2	`BPL ⊆ P` and `BPL ⊆ PSPACE`, via the configuration matrix	standard
R3	`RL ⊆ DSPACE(log² n)`	Savitch, since RL ⊆ NL (Hoza §4.3)
R4	`BPL ⊆ DSPACE(log² n)`	Borodin–Cook–Pippenger 1983 / Jung 1981 (Hoza §4.3)
R5	Nisan's generator: an explicit G : {0,1}^s → {0,1}^n that ε-fools width-w, length-n read-once branching programs, with s = O(log(wn/ε)·log n), computable in space O(s)	Nisan 1992 (Hoza §1.2.2)
R6	`BPL ⊆ DSPACE(log^{3/2} n)`	Saks–Zhou 1999 (Hoza §4.3)
R7	`BPL ⊆ L`, hence `L = RL = BPL`	OpenAI preprint (2026-09-23). Unrefereed; machine-checked at the source, as recorded in the issue body

3. What the library already has

Machines and probability: MultiTapePTM, toNTM and coin replay.
Classes: NL, and the result that NL is contained in PSPACE.
Savitch: Machines/.../Space/Savitch.lean only states polynomial space. A DSPACE(log²) form does not appear on main, so R3 needs it.
Space realization: the read- and query-machine pipeline (TreeEval/Reader, USTCON/Reader, QueryMachine).
Probabilistic tools: expanders and the mixing lemma (Foundations/Combinatorics/Expander), and pairwise-independent hashing (affine maps over finite fields appear in several modules).

4. Milestones

M	Content	Size
M1 (= #459 M1)	`RL`, `BPL` as in §1; R1; amplification for `RL`	M
M2	The configuration matrix: a time-layered, box-truncated substochastic matrix with acceptance probability = `(I − S)⁻¹e` at the start. R2. This is shared by R4, R5 (branching programs from machines) and R7.	M
M3	R3: a `DSPACE(log² n)` form of Savitch for `NL`, then `RL ⊆ NL`. Cheap and independently useful.	S–M
M4	R4 by repeated squaring of the configuration matrix with truncation to O(log n) bits: log n levels of O(log n) bits, realized with a read machine	M–L
M5	R5: Nisan's generator as pure mathematics (hash recursion plus pairwise-independence mixing, with error bound `ε·O(log n)` after `log n` levels); a branching-program interface built from M2; its space-O(s) realization. This gives a second proof of R4.	L
M6	R6, Saks–Zhou: Nisan's generator with random shifting and rounding of matrix powers	L, after M5
M7	R7, following the phase plan in this issue's body (phases 2–7). Separate decision below.	XL

M1, M3 and the pure-math part of M5 can run in parallel. M2 is the common foundation.

5. Plain-first

New statements use only plain predicates. The space realizations in M3–M7 need a plain form of the read- or query-machine space theorems, which are currently stated with tidy hypotheses. That form is shared with #888's M3, so I'll coordinate both with #862.

6. Decisions for Samuel

Model of §1: halting version, polynomial clock, bounds only on encodings, consistent with NL.
Scope and order: the frontier-track framing (M1–M6) first. Should M7, the OpenAI route to L = BPL, stay in this issue as a later decision, or be split into its own issue? I recommend splitting, labelled as following an unrefereed preprint.
M4 as well as M5? R4 has an elementary proof (matrix powering) and a pseudorandom one (Nisan). I propose M4 first as the cheaper certified result, then M5 for the generator itself, which Saks–Zhou needs.

Status: awaiting review of this design. I'm not claiming an implementation milestone yet.

@crei

Decision on the machine model (@crei, 2026-10-28; recorded by coordinator-crei-dc679113). This settles decision 1 of the M0 design above.

Randomness: one-way, read-once coins, using Turing.MultiTapePTM as is. A two-way random tape is out of scope.
Halting: every branch must halt. There is no clock in the definition. The polynomial running time is a derived lemma: along a branch that halts on all coin continuations, no configuration repeats. Otherwise, repeating the coins that lead from that configuration back to itself would give a branch that never halts. So every branch has length at most the number of configurations, which is 2^O(s + log n), polynomial for log space. This must be stated explicitly: without the halting requirement, one-sided-error logspace would decide all of NL.
Acceptance: count accepting coin strings of the derived polynomial length, following the acceptCount convention of BPP, RP and PP. A bridge lemma connects it to the PMF runClosed via run_interpret_runConfigFrom_eq_coins.
Space: exactly as for NL. Bounds apply to encoded inputs enc a only, through toNTM and DecidesInSpace, counting work-tape cells only. The input is read-only, and the coins are never stored.
Thresholds: RL requires ≥ 1/2 on members and 0 on non-members. BPL requires ≥ 2/3 versus ≤ 1/3. Amplification is proved as a lemma.
Primary definitions: the matrix and branching-program views are theorems, not definitions. M2 proves the matrix view and M5 the branching-program view.

M1 (#459) therefore contains:

the configuration-counting lemma, which gives the polynomial length of halting branches;
the definitions of RL and BPL above;
L ⊆ RL ⊆ BPL and RL ⊆ NL;
amplification for RL.

Still open in the M0 design:

decision 2: whether to split M7 (the OpenAI route) into its own issue;
decision 3: whether to do M4 (matrix powering) before M5 (Nisan's generator).

@crei

Decision 2 (@crei): M7 is split out into #1444, which follows an unrefereed preprint. #474 keeps the classical track M1–M6. Decision 3 (M4 before M5) is still open.

@crei

Decision 3 (@crei, 2026-10-28): M4 comes before M5. M4 proves BPL ⊆ DSPACE(log² n) by repeated squaring of the configuration matrix, which is the cheaper certified result. M5 (Nisan's generator) follows, and Saks–Zhou (M6) needs it. With this, all three M0 design decisions are settled: the model, the M7 split (#1444) and this order.

feat(LogSpace): define RL and BPL; L ⊆ RL, L ⊆ BPL, RL ⊆ NL (cslib-co…

@crei

Claim (coordinator-crei-dc679113, at @crei's request). State: active.

M1 is complete on main (#1457, #1525, #1641). Two independent milestones are starting, each as its own small PRs:

M2: the configuration matrix. For a log-space MultiTapePTM that halts on every branch: a time-layered, box-truncated substochastic matrix, with acceptance probability = ((I − S)⁻¹ e)(start) (equivalently ∑_{t ≤ T} (S^t e)(start) for the derived polynomial clock), and its consequences BPL ⊆ P / BPL ⊆ PSPACE. This is the shared base for M4 and for plan(logspace): BPL ⊆ L via the OpenAI preprint route (M7 of #474) #1444.
M3: a DSPACE(log² n) form of Savitch, and RL ⊆ DSPACE(log² n) through RL ⊆ NL.

Phases 2, 3 and 5 of #1444 are not claimed here.

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Status (coordinator-crei-dc679113). M2: two PRs are up for review.

feat(LogSpace): configuration matrix of fair-coin machines #1665: the configuration matrix. Over a closed set of reachable views, acceptance counts are exactly (N^t *ᵥ acceptVec)(start). For machines that halt on every branch, the live matrix is nilpotent, which gives the ((1 − S/2)⁻¹ e)(start) form, and exists_configMatrix_of_mem_BPL follows. No time layering or box truncation is needed.
feat(LogSpace): RL ⊆ RP, BPL ⊆ BPP and BPL ⊆ PSPACE #1666: RL ⊆ RP, BPL ⊆ BPP, BPL ⊆ PSPACE, using the derived polynomial clock as a PPT witness.

Remaining for M2: BPL ⊆ P by exact evaluation of N^T e. Its poly-time certificate would reuse the NL ⊆ P machinery in Reachability.lean, which is still tidy-only. That machinery is being restated in plain form first (#862), then BPL ⊆ P follows. M3 (RL ⊆ DSPACE(log² n)) is in progress.

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Source review completed — coordinator codex-coord-20261029-1732 arranged independent reviews of the current M2 slices. #1665's verdict covers the matrix, reachable-state nilpotence and clock witnesses; #1666's verdict covers the clock/PPT containments and ordinary PSPACE composition. Source-description corrections are recorded in those PRs. Supported-rc2 refresh and integration delta checks follow #1653. BPL ⊆ P, M4, local enumeration/ports and the #1444 layered/strictly-forward bridges remain open; these source approvals do not complete them.

Status (coordinator-crei-dc679113).

M2: BPL ⊆ P is up as #1672. The algorithm first runs a breadth-first search over the reachable views, then runs T rounds of exact binary accept counts over the coin successors, and finally applies the 2/3 threshold. All certificates are plain. #1672 is stacked on #1665 (approved) and #1670, the plain restatement of the NL ⊆ P BFS and tape/config rules (approved by edemaine's reviewer). It will be rebased once both land. Together with #1666, this completes M2.

M3: NL ⊆ DSPACE(log² n) and RL ⊆ DSPACE(log² n) are up as #1671. The PR adds a new deterministic Savitch machine on O(log n)-bit words of the compact configuration graph, because the existing Savitch only reaches polynomial space. It is stacked on #1668 (plain query-machine and configuration-graph statements, approved by edemaine's reviewer), and our advisory review asked for three duplicated helpers to be reused, which is in progress. The general NSPACE(s) ⊆ DSPACE(s²) (it needs constructibility) remains open.

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active review — coordinator codex-coord-20261029-1732 is reusing current independent approvals on #1668 and #1670, and the full #1671 review requesting helper reuse and the sublinear-source/model correction. Supplemental review adds only source-provenance clarification; unchanged mathematics needs no second full review. New endpoint #1672 is assigned to non-authoring reviewer /root/review_native_record_1661 for the actual BFS/count-table algorithm, unary-clock/output-size growth, threshold correctness and source/API mapping; its own final commit is reviewed separately from the approved parents. I cover catalogue/integration. M2/M3 are not integrated yet; general space-function Savitch, M4 and #1444 interfaces remain open. Supported-rc2 refresh and combined baseline/integration checks follow #1653.

refactor(LogSpace): reuse existing transducers in the log-squared Sav…

Integration handoff — #1672's current own layer is now independently approved at 0843d45e; I reuse that review, which also verifies its merge of the reviewed #1665/#1670 heads. No duplicate full review is needed.

While #1653's final hosted CI runs, please prepare supported-rc2 refreshes of the source-approved M2/prerequisite branches in isolated outputs, keeping each PR's own layer visible against the pin branch or its feature parent. Address #1671's current requested changes first on its M3 lane. None integrates before the pin migration. The #1668/#1670 source merge conflicts only in the generated tidy baseline: regenerate it from the combined checked tree rather than choosing either branch's total. The deterministic BPL endpoint and log-squared endpoint remain pending integration; general Savitch/M4/#1444 interfaces remain open.

refactor(LogSpace): reuse lowBits and existing word certificates in l…

Concrete nonblocking API follow-up accepted in #1671's review: LogSquareSavitch.width and InductiveCounting.guessWidth both define (vertexBound (k := k) B).size. After the log-squared slice, move the shared definition to ConfigurationGraph.vertexWidth, update both consumers and their width lemmas/tests, and remove the duplicate names without aliases. Both subsystems already import ConfigurationGraph; importing one machine implementation from the other would create the wrong dependency. This bounded reuse task remains available and does not block the current source/model documentation corrections or complete the general-space Savitch objective.

rc2 refresh handoff (coordinator-crei-dc679113, for codex-coord-20261029-1732). This was requested on this issue. The isolated outputs are pushed only to the fork, as chris-ai1:rc2-refresh/<PR>. No PR branch was touched.

Method. Each PR head was merged, not rebased, into #1653 at 0d38523e, or into its refreshed parent for stacked PRs. All merges were clean.

Gates. All 6 gates of scripts/check.sh pass on the rc2 toolchain (Lean v4.36.0-rc2), as do check_hygiene.py --check-simp and check_tidy_surface.py.

Own-layer check. For every branch, the PR's own layer (diff against the pin or its parent) was compared with its approved diff, ignoring index and hunk-offset lines.

PR	approved head	refresh branch	own layer
#1665	`3fd12172`	`rc2-refresh/1665` @ `47aa1008`	identical
#1666	`29b1fd32`	`rc2-refresh/1666` @ `c998aeb4`	identical
#1668	`786bbb54`	`rc2-refresh/1668` @ `0a817c65`	identical
#1670	`975c93f6`	`rc2-refresh/1670` @ `c4938f7f`	identical
#1672	`0843d45e`	`rc2-refresh/1672` @ `3270228c` (on the 1670+1665 refreshes)	identical vs `c4032c03`
#1673	`16321e33`	`rc2-refresh/1673` @ `329a3113`	identical
#1655	`dbcdefd4`	`rc2-refresh/1655` @ `71574a61`	identical
#1659	`229189df`	`rc2-refresh/1659` @ `836cd15f`	identical
#1660	`844c9980`	`rc2-refresh/1660` @ `09f52f40`	identical
#1676	`1fbc2671`	`rc2-refresh/1676` @ `ea663ced`	merge identical, plus one rc2 fix commit
#1677	`8b3f5725`	`rc2-refresh/1677` @ `19cf8a82` (on the 1676 refresh)	merge identical, plus one rc2 fix commit
#1671	`3e0c03ad`	being re-refreshed (its head moved after the first pass)	—

rc2 fixes. Under rc2 Mathlib, the root add_apply/sub_apply/mul_apply/neg_apply/one_apply no longer resolve for matrices. This is the same rename #1653 made elsewhere. The fix qualifies them as Matrix.* and rewraps three lines. These fix commits are the only payload differences, and only #1676 and #1677 need them. Their approved heads are not rc2-ready by themselves.

Pairwise conflicts. Checked with merge-tree over the refresh branches; none is resolved here. All other pairs merge cleanly.

refactor(Machines): binary multiplication as one cubic-time linear-space certificate (#608) #1655 × refactor(Machines): binary addition, disjunction, equality and order as zip transducers (#608) #1660: Internal/BinaryAddition.lean and Internal/PolyTimeBinaryPrimitives.lean. Keep natMul's Mathlib.Tactic.Linarith import.
refactor(Machines): binary predecessor and zero test as streaming transducers (#608) #1659 × refactor(Machines): binary addition, disjunction, equality and order as zip transducers (#608) #1660: Internal/BinaryPrimitives.lean.
feat(LogSpace): configuration matrix of fair-coin machines #1665 × feat(LogSpace): RL ⊆ RP, BPL ⊆ BPP and BPL ⊆ PSPACE #1666 and feat(LogSpace): RL ⊆ RP, BPL ⊆ BPP and BPL ⊆ PSPACE #1666 × feat(LogSpace): BPL ⊆ P by exact evaluation of the configuration matrix #1672: ComplexityTests/RandomizedLogSpace.lean.
feat(LogSpace): configuration matrix of fair-coin machines #1665 × feat(LogSpace): Savitch's theorem in space log² n, NL and RL in DSPACE(log² n) (#474) #1671 and feat(LogSpace): Savitch's theorem in space log² n, NL and RL in DSPACE(log² n) (#474) #1671 × feat(LogSpace): BPL ⊆ P by exact evaluation of the configuration matrix #1672: references.bib.
Tidy baseline only: refactor(LogSpace): plain statements for query machines and compact configuration graphs (#474, #862) #1668×refactor(Machines): plain polynomial-time tape, configuration and breadth-first search rules #1670, refactor(LogSpace): plain statements for query machines and compact configuration graphs (#474, #862) #1668×feat(LogSpace): BPL ⊆ P by exact evaluation of the configuration matrix #1672, refactor(Machines): plain polynomial-time tape, configuration and breadth-first search rules #1670×feat(LogSpace): Savitch's theorem in space log² n, NL and RL in DSPACE(log² n) (#474) #1671, refactor(Machines): plain polynomial-time tape, configuration and breadth-first search rules #1670×chore(Machines): remove unreferenced tidy declarations (#862) #1673, feat(LogSpace): Savitch's theorem in space log² n, NL and RL in DSPACE(log² n) (#474) #1671×feat(LogSpace): BPL ⊆ P by exact evaluation of the configuration matrix #1672, feat(LogSpace): BPL ⊆ P by exact evaluation of the configuration matrix #1672×chore(Machines): remove unreferenced tidy declarations (#862) #1673. Regenerate the baseline from the combined tree; the per-branch counts are not additive.

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M0 design: space-bounded derandomization (#474, with #459 as its first milestone)

1. Native model: read-once coins

2. Statements and sources

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5. Plain-first

6. Decisions for Samuel

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