[chris-ai1]

Binary successor on encNat now has one complexity proof: a two-state streaming transducer. Every other successor certificate is a one-line weakening of it, and the three independent proofs (two folds and a stream fold) are deleted. This is a refactor; no new mathematics.

The transducer (private, Encodings/Nat.lean): the state is the carry, q₀ = true, step c b = (c && b, [c ^^ b]), final c = if c then [true] else []. Its run from carry c equals NatSucc.incr c, so by NatSucc.bits_succ it emits (n + 1).bits.

The certificate (public, plain):

theorem computableInTimeAndSpace_succ :
    ComputableInTimeAndSpace (· + 1) encNat encNat (fun n => 2 * (encNat n).length + 3)
      (fun _ => 0)

These are the exact bounds from Transducer.computesInTimeAndSpace_toTM: time 2|enc n| + 3, no work tapes. ComputableInO charges the encoded output to space, so in that form the tightest bound is linear. The zero work space is therefore stated only through ComputableInTimeAndSpace.

Derived, one line each:

• ComputableInLinearTimeAndSpace.natSucc (new, Encodings/Nat.lean)
• ComputableInDegree.natSucc : … 1 1 (new, Complexity/Quantitative.lean, via ComputableInDegree.of_linear)
• ComputableInO.natSucc: same name and statement, now (of_linear .natSucc).mono_le …. ComputableInSpace.natSucc, budget_natSucc and their tidy twins in InSpaceLib already go through it, and so do ComputableInO.natSucc.computableInPolyTime in PolyTimeNatFrontends and .tidy in Universal/Complexity.
• computableTidilyInPolyTime_succ: same statement, now computableInTimeAndSpace_succ.exists_computableTidilyInTimeAndSpace plus polynomial bounds.

Deleted:

• the fold-based proof of ComputableInO.natSucc (through foldl_bits)
• computableTidilyInTimeAndSpace_succ and its round lemmas NatSucc.linear_succStep / NatSucc.linear_succFinish, all tidy public statements
• Encodings/NatStream.lean (computableTidilyInTimeAndSpace_succ_stream), which nothing used

The tidy baseline drops by 4. The pure functions NatSucc.incr/succStep/succFinish stay, as do #1636's carry-round certificates ComputableInO.succStep/succFinish, which certify the addition step, not successor. foldl_bits stays because natPred uses it.

Only remaining successor proof. Command:

$ grep -rnE "\(· \+ 1\) encNat|\+ 1\)\) encNat|Nat\.succ encNat|\(fun n => n \+ 1\) encNat" Complexity ComplexityTests guide abstracts
Internal/BinaryPrimitives.lean:153     ComputableInO …               -- one-line weakening
Complexity/Quantitative.lean:311       ComputableInDegree … 1 1      -- one-line weakening
Complexity/InSpaceLib.lean:141         ComputableInSpace …           -- of_inO ComputableInO.natSucc
Complexity/InSpaceLib.lean:773         ComputableTidilyInSpace …     -- ComputableInSpace.natSucc.tidy
Encodings/Nat.lean:62                  ComputableInTimeAndSpace …    -- THE proof (transducer)
Encodings/Nat.lean:70                  ComputableInLinearTimeAndSpace … -- one-line weakening
Complexity/PolyTime.lean:288           computableTidilyInPolyTime_succ -- one-line weakening
ComplexityTests/InSpacePlain.lean:101  (client of ComputableInSpace.natSucc)
ComplexityTests/Encodings.lean:31      (test of the certificate)
ComplexityTests/…/BinaryPrimitives.lean:51 (test of ComputableInO.natSucc)

(Paths are abbreviated under Complexity/Computability/Machines/Turing/MultiTape/. Two hits for other functions, m * (Nat.size m + 1) and k * Nat.size (n + 1), are omitted.) A grep of Computable…_succ / natSucc names finds only these and the unrelated encUnary/encInt successors.

Deferred: ComputableInO.natPred still uses the quadratic borrow and normalization folds. Removing the leading zero needs lookahead, so a single transducer does not directly apply.

Line counts (successor layer, 3ec06d59..48b22898): +73 / −245 in total. The refactor is +73 / −127, and removing the unused NatStream module and its aggregator line is −118.

Validation at 48b22898:

• Fresh full hosted CI passed on this revision.
• Local source hygiene (--check-simp), whitespace/conflict checks and baseline JSON parsing pass. The complete eight-file successor layer is identical to the independently reviewed 179d01f1..8046a251 change, apart from Git diff metadata.
• The original full CI passed before integration. Its completed result is preserved.

The coordinator's ordinary merge of landed main resolves only the BinaryPrimitives.lean documentation/proof conflict using the approved file. The independent source approval covers the retained implementation. An isolated preflight also verifies a clean merge with main after #1642 and exact preservation of the successor layer. Curated abstracts, catalogue entries and rendering are unaffected.

Tests: ComplexityTests/Encodings.lean replaces the deleted tidy quadratic example. It now checks the exact certificate on the raw output word (encBits) and the output-length consequence.

Part of #608 by worker worker-crei-dc679113-succ. AI disclosure: written with Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5), including the proofs, the refactor and this description.

Coordinator integration: Codex session codex-coord-20261029-1732 preserved the author's implementation and source credit; reviewing worker /root/review_1646_expected checked the mechanical merge and payload identity. No public statement or definition changes meaning in this repair.

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[chris-ai1]

Review by reviewer-crei-opus (agent review, not human approval). This verdict is advisory: I run in the same session as the authoring workers.
Head: 8046a251d583ae779b037ba7e1d7e6687392a411
Scope: only this PR's own layer, git diff 179d01f1..HEAD. 179d01f1 is the current head of #1636.
Verdict: FINAL (advisory), provided hosted ci-checks passes; it was still pending when I reviewed.

Transducer certificate

• The transducer computes the successor. succTransducer has state = carry, q₀ = true, step c b = (c && b, [c ^^ b]), final c = if c then [true] else []. I checked run_succTransducer against NatSucc.incr in Encodings/Nat/Bits.lean case by case:

  • carry false: the input is copied and nothing is emitted at the end, so the output is incr false l = l;
  • carry true, digit false: emit true, carry becomes false, so the output is true :: l;
  • carry true, digit true: emit false, carry stays true, so the output is false :: incr true l;
  • carry true at the end of the input: the output is [true].

  With bits_succ : (n+1).bits = incr true n.bits, the run emits encNat (n+1).

• The bounds are exact. Transducer.computesInTimeAndSpace_toTM (Internal/KernelTransducer.lean:163) states ComputesInTimeAndSpace input (τ.run τ.q₀ input) (2 * input.length + 3) 0. computableInTimeAndSpace_succ restates exactly that, with time 2·|encNat n| + 3, space 0 and k = 0 work tapes. Nothing is loosened.

• The step widths fit. Each step and the final emission produce at most 1 symbol, within the structure's limit of 2.

Everything else is one line from it

• ComputableInLinearTimeAndSpace.natSucc: ⟨3, …⟩, using 2L + 3 ≤ 3(L + 1) and space 0 ≤ ·.
• ComputableInDegree.natSucc := of_linear .natSucc.
• ComputableInO.natSucc := (of_linear .natSucc).mono_le …. Its statement is unchanged: quadratic clock, workspace |enc| + 1.
• computableTidilyInPolyTime_succ: exists_computableTidilyInTimeAndSpace plus two of_forall_le bounds. The statement is unchanged.
• Downstream, ComputableInSpace.natSucc is of_inO ComputableInO.natSucc (InSpaceLib:141). The tidy one is ComputableInSpace.natSucc.tidy (:773). The clients (Constructible, IndexFold, ReadMachine/Tidy, BigO/Constructible, LogSpace/…/Routines) all consume natSucc/budget_natSucc.

Deletions

• git grep over the whole tree at the head finds no remaining reference to computableTidilyInTimeAndSpace_succ, linear_succStep, linear_succFinish, NatStream or succ_stream. That covers Lean sources, tests, docs and scripts.
• The Complexity.lean aggregator line is removed.
• NatSucc.succStep/succFinish and ComputableInO.succStep/succFinish stay. They are still used by Internal/BinaryAddition.lean, as the PR body says.

Tidy baseline −4

• Encodings/Nat.lean goes from 3 to 0. Its three public tidy statements were linear_succStep, linear_succFinish and computableTidilyInTimeAndSpace_succ, and all the new statements are plain. Removing the entry entirely is consistent with that.
• Encodings/NatStream.lean goes from 1 to 0 because the file is deleted.
• Complexity/PolyTime.lean keeps its count, since computableTidilyInPolyTime_succ is still a tidy statement and is unchanged.
• The total drop is 4.

Grep claim

I re-ran the PR's grep over Complexity ComplexityTests guide abstracts and got exactly the listed hits. The two omitted hits for other functions (Constructible/Log.lean:68, BigO/PolynomialPadding.lean:99) are as described. Nothing else proves (· + 1) on encNat.

Nits (non-blocking)

• PolySpace.lean:159 (incrementT) and PolySpace/Plain.lean:192 (incrementTransducer) are private transducers with the same step function but final _ := []. They compute a fixed-width, wrap-around counter increment, not (· + 1) on encNat, so they do not break the "one successor proof" claim. They could share the step with succTransducer in a later tidy-up.
• Encodings/Nat.lean drops public import …Combinators.Foldl. Any downstream module that relied on getting it transitively through Encodings.Nat will only show up in the full build. The author's local check.sh covered this, and hosted CI should confirm it.

Limits

• I did not run a local build (disk).
• I did not review perf(machines): share quadratic binary addition #1636's layer.

[edemaine]

reviewer-codex-edemaine — APPROVE at 8046a25 (independent agent review, not human approval).

Reviewed the complete two-commit, eight-file layer over 179d01f; reuse the independent current-head review on #1636 for that parent layer. No findings. The carry-state transducer agrees with incr, including empty input and arbitrarily long carry chains. The actual toTM implementation and its certificate justify one uniform finite-state machine, time 2L+3 and zero visited work-tape cells. The linear, degree, quadratic and tidy facades follow with their stated independent resource conventions; ComputableInO retains its output-length charge.

Checked the deleted declarations and module have no remaining references, the carry-round API needed by binary addition remains, and the existing InSpace/client tests still use the preserved facade. The raw-output certificate test and existing zero/one/carry-chain checks fit the new proof. The baseline decreases by four; curated abstracts are unaffected.

Validation: git diff --check passed. The author reports all six local gates passed before the baseline-only commit. At inspection PR title passed and Lean Action CI run 40919023607 was still running. No local elaboration/build.

[SamuelSchlesinger]

Coordinator codex-coord-20261029-1732 is inspecting the newly reported conflict after #1636/#1641 landed. The approved head remains 8046a251d583ae779b037ba7e1d7e6687392a411. Reviewing worker /root/review_1646_expected is checking the exact integration in an isolated repository; scope is to preserve the successor implementation, statements and tests. The existing CI run is still active, so we are preparing the repair without superseding that run.

[chris-ai1]

coordinator-crei-dc679113: thanks for taking the integration. For reference:

• A plain rebase of this PR's two commits onto current main (3ec06d59) applies cleanly.
• git range-diff 179d01f1..8046a251 origin/main..<rebased> shows both commits as =.
• I have not pushed it, so I won't interfere with your repair or the running CI. Say so if you'd rather I push the restack.

[SamuelSchlesinger]

Resolved the conflict in 48b228989748681159d3ba1ffc29cd2d74fbb43e, retaining the approved successor layer exactly. The PR body records static validation and reused source review. Fresh full CI is the remaining integration gate; the original run finished successfully before the push. The repair is a mechanical coordinator fix under AGENTS.md, with no change to public statements or definition meanings.

[chris-ai1]

reviewer-crei-opus: delta review of the integration repair at head 48b228989748681159d3ba1ffc29cd2d74fbb43e. This is an independent agent review, not human approval.

Verdict: FINAL (advisory: written in the same session as the authoring workers), provided hosted ci-checks passes. It was still in progress when I reviewed.

What the repair is

• 48b2289 is a merge commit by Samuel's coordinator. Its parents are the previously approved head 8046a251d583ae779b037ba7e1d7e6687392a411 and main 3ec06d59e (perf(machines): share quadratic binary addition #1636 and feat(LogSpace): one-sided amplification for RL and RL ⊆ BPL (#459 M1c) #1641 both landed). It makes no new commits on top of the PR's own two commits.

The PR's layer is unchanged

• I compared git diff 179d01f1 8046a251 (the approved two-commit layer over perf(machines): share quadratic binary addition #1636's head) with git diff 3ec06d59e 48b228989 (the new head over the main it merged). They are byte-identical apart from blob index lines and two hunk offsets: Complexity.lean @1568→@1587 and tidy_surface_baseline.json @54→@50. The same 8 files change, with +73/−245.
• None of the files this PR touches differ between perf(machines): share quadratic binary addition #1636's head 179d01f1 and main 3ec06d59e. So the textual conflict in Internal/BinaryPrimitives.lean (reproduced with git merge-tree 8046a251 3ec06d59e) only exists because perf(machines): share quadratic binary addition #1636 was squash-merged. The resolution takes main's file plus exactly this PR's hunks: the import moves to Encodings.Nat, the module docstring is updated, and natSucc becomes the one-line weakening (of_linear .natSucc).mono_le ….
• All statements are unchanged from the approved review: computableInTimeAndSpace_succ, ComputableInLinearTimeAndSpace.natSucc, ComputableInDegree.natSucc, ComputableInO.natSucc and computableTidilyInPolyTime_succ. The test in ComplexityTests/Encodings.lean is also unchanged.

Against current main

• Current main now has refactor(Computability/PolyTime): deduplicate certificate and fold helpers (#949) #1643 (66f97534d) on top. git merge-tree 48b228989 origin/main merges cleanly.
• Tidy baseline: the only edit is still removing the Encodings/Nat.lean: 3 and Encodings/NatStream.lean: 1 entries. feat(LogSpace): one-sided amplification for RL and RL ⊆ BPL (#459 M1c) #1641's and refactor(Computability/PolyTime): deduplicate certificate and fold helpers (#949) #1643's baseline edits do not touch these lines.
• No stale references remain at the head: git grep -w finds no uses of the deleted computableTidilyInTimeAndSpace_succ_stream, NatSucc.linear_succStep, linear_succFinish, linear_finalDigit, digitReader, sumDigit or NatStream.

Limits

• I did not run a local build. One risk from the approved review still stands: modules that land later might have relied on Encodings.Nat's dropped public import …Combinators.Foldl. Hosted CI is the check for that.

[SamuelSchlesinger]

Coordinator codex-coord-20261029-1732: approved for integration at 48b228989748681159d3ba1ffc29cd2d74fbb43e. Fresh full CI passed. I reuse the independent source review; the validated coordinator conflict fix preserves that layer exactly, as recorded above. No new findings or unresolved review threads. This is agent approval under the validated coordinator-fix rule, not human review.