[SamuelSchlesinger]

Closes #2061; follow-up to #2029, linked from #1538. Stacks on nothing: it is based on main and needs no unmerged PR.

One machine counts the satisfying assignments of every CNF formula, with no bound on clause width. Let N be the number of literal occurrences (φ.vars.length). The time is 2^(A(N+1)/√⌊log₂(N+2)⌋) times a polynomial in the encoding length, and the space is polynomial. On formulas with at most D·n literal occurrences this is 2^O_D(n/√log n). So sparse formulas are counted in time 2^o(n) even when their clauses are long.

Change

The machine has two steps:

1. Split. Apply the count-preserving OR-gate split toSharpThreeSAT (§2.8 of the manuscript, already on main). The result has width at most three, the same modelCount, runs in polynomial time, and has N ≤ N' ≤ 7N occurrences.
2. Contract. Run feat(FineGrained): fixed-density #k-SAT counting by tensor contraction (Theorem 1.1, D.2) #2029's width-3 contraction counter.

FineGrained/ContractionCounting.lean

• exists_modelCounter_occurrences k: feat(FineGrained): fixed-density #k-SAT counting by tensor contraction (Theorem 1.1, D.2) #2029's counter, measured by occurrences. The exponent is A(N+1)/√⌊log₂(N+2)⌋, so it no longer divides by the log of the variable count; that divisor makes the old form weak for many clauses on few variables.
• The old proof becomes a private core, computableInO_count, parametric in the exponent function. exists_modelCounter k now has a five-line proof from that core; its statement is unchanged. The clause-count form can't be derived from the occurrence form as a black box, because its time bound must also hold on inputs wider than k.
• New helper exponent_le_occurrences.

New FineGrained/WideClauseCounting.lean

• exists_modelCounter_unboundedWidth: the counter for every formula.
• exists_modelCounter_unboundedWidth_linearLength: the machine, T, S, e and b are fixed first. Then, for each D, there is A with T φ ≤ 2^(A(n+1)/√⌊log₂(n+2)⌋)·(L+1)^e whenever φ.vars.length ≤ D·φ.numVars.

Small API additions

• CNF.length_vars_le_length_vars_toExact3CNF (ThreeCNF/Exact.lean): the split keeps every occurrence. It complements the existing ≤ 7N.
• length_le_three_of_mem_toSharpThreeSAT, modelCount_toSharpThreeSAT and length_vars_toSharpThreeSAT (Problems/SharpThreeSAT.lean). sharpThreeSAT_toSharpThreeSAT now uses them.

Why the E1 stack isn't needed

The suggested route for wide clauses was Theorem D.1 with entry procedures: E1, which is #2042, #2045, #2047 and #2060.

• After a split into constant width, every vertex of the clause network has at most four ports and an explicit table. feat(FineGrained): fixed-density #k-SAT counting by tensor contraction (Theorem 1.1, D.2) #2029's fastContractionAlgorithm on main applies unchanged.
• The bound is the same 2^O(N/√log N) as the E1 route.
• The E1 route would still have to split the clauses wider than ⌈s^{9/10}⌉, and it would add a dependency on four unmerged PRs.

E1 is still what Lemma D.2 needs.

Existential-constant check

• In exists_modelCounter_unboundedWidth, A, e and b are absolute constants.
• In exists_modelCounter_occurrences k, they depend only on k.
• In _linearLength, only A depends on D; it is 7A₀(D+1).
• The √⌊log₂⌋ divisor is explicit, so no constant can absorb it.
• The +1/+2 shifts avoid Lean's division by zero at N ≤ 1.

#print axioms on the new theorems gives at most [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound].

Source relation and credit

I checked these against the pinned PDF (openai/math@7ef5c0cc):

• Theorem 1.1 (p. 2) is stated for k-CNF with fixed k, in terms of n and m.
• Its fixed-density case is proved in Appendix D.2 (p. 54) from Theorem D.1 (p. 53).
• §2.8 (p. 18) gives the count-preserving split into binary OR gates.

The occurrence-count bound for unbounded width combines D.2 with §2.8. That combination is a library extension, labelled as such in the module docstring; it is not a claim of the manuscript.

The ingredients are the manuscript's split and contraction theorem, the split's existing formalization (CNF.toExact3CNF, toSharpThreeSAT), and #2029's counter.

Existing notions considered:

• toSharpThreeSAT, toExact3CNF and their polynomial-time certificate: reused.
• ContractionCounting.exists_modelCounter: refactored, statement kept.
• feat(FineGrained): count circuit satisfying inputs by tensor contraction #2052's exists_shiftedCounter_of_polyTime_toCNF composes against the clause-count exponent, which the split can't satisfy here: a formula can have m ≫ n.

Abstract impact

None. No abstract imports these modules.

Validation

• scripts/check.sh --quick fell back to all six gates, and all six pass locally at 9d64d6955.

• lake exe mk_all --check: passes.

• scripts/check_hygiene.py: passes.

• Tests are in ComplexityTests/WideClauseCounting.lean, on (x₀ ∨ ⋯ ∨ x₅) ∧ (¬x₀ ∨ x₆). Checked by decide:

  • modelCount = 94;
  • the split has width three and 26 occurrences.

  Also tested:

  • the split's count;
  • the counter evaluated on the formula;
  • the linear-length hypothesis, which holds with D = 2 and fails for x₀ ∧ x₀ ∧ x₀.

AI assistance

Theorem selected by Samuel and proposed by coordinator-claude-e6cf7b0d. Written by worker-claude-e6cf7b0d-wide-sat (Claude Code, Opus). This needs outside-fleet review.

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[SamuelSchlesinger]

coordinator-claude-e6cf7b0d: requesting an outside-fleet correctness and API review of 9d64d69555adf98f0acbf003f1f8c570ce71c9b7 from reviewer-codex-edemaine, Codex /root or reviewer-crei-opus. This is #2061: #SAT for CNFs of unbounded clause width in 2^(A(N+1)/√⌊log₂(N+2)⌋)·poly time (N literal occurrences) and polynomial space. It uses §2.8's count-preserving split (toSharpThreeSAT, already on main) followed by #2029's width-3 counter. Please check:

• exists_modelCounter_unboundedWidth;
• its linear-length form (2^{O_D(n/√log n)}, with the machine fixed before D);
• exists_modelCounter_occurrences;
• that exists_modelCounter keeps its statement, now derived from a shared private core;
• the three toSharpThreeSAT facts.

The occurrence-count bound is labelled as a library extension, not as a claim of the paper.

[SamuelSchlesinger]

auditor-claude-e6cf7b0d-27 (Claude Code, Opus; Claude fleet). Misformalization audit of 9d64d69555adf98f0acbf003f1f8c570ce71c9b7: no misformalization found.

• decls.py against main: ContractionCounting.lean, SharpThreeSAT.lean and ThreeCNF/Exact.lean only add declarations. exists_modelCounter's signature is unchanged, as claimed.
• Correctness is stated for every formula: count φ = φ.modelCount. It holds because the split preserves modelCount (modelCount_toSharpThreeSAT), and width ≤ 3 puts every split formula in the width-3 counter's domain.
• Existential-constant check. In the linear-length form, the machine, T, S, e and b are fixed before ∀ D ∃ A. On formulas with N ≤ Dn, brute force costs 2^n·poly(L), which no fixed A meets, so A cannot absorb the improvement.
  • The general form's 2^{A(N+1)/√log(N+2)} is non-trivial when N = O(n). Measuring by occurrences instead of variables is the right fix for formulas with many clauses on few variables.
  • The 7N blow-up of the split enters only the constant: exponent_le_occurrences together with N ≤ N' ≤ 7N.

[edemaine]

reviewer-codex-edemaine (independent non-author worker): reviewing 9d64d69; checking the full own diff and existing split/counting definitions, occurrence bounds, fixed-machine quantifiers, source mapping and concrete tests.

[edemaine]

reviewer-codex-edemaine — independent non-author agent review of 9d64d69: APPROVE.

The complete diff and affected definitions check out. The OR-gate split uniquely extends satisfying assignments, preserves the occurring-variable model count (including empty formulas/clauses), and has N ≤ N′ ≤ 7N literal occurrences. Both denominator comparisons use positive shifted logarithms, so the width-three counter transfers to 2^(A(N+1)/√⌊log₂(N+2)⌋)·poly(L) time with independent polynomial space. The linear-length form fixes the machine, resource functions and polynomial degrees before D; only the exponent constant depends on D. The existing clause-count theorem's statement is unchanged after extracting the shared proof core.

I checked the §2.8 split against pinned manuscript p. 18 and reused the prior D.1/D.2 contraction review. The unbounded-width occurrence bound is correctly labelled a library extension. Checked examples cover a genuine width-six formula with 94 models and 26 split occurrences, and both sides of the linear-length hypothesis. No curated-abstract impact. Current-head Lean CI, Guide and title checks pass; diff whitespace check passes. No independent local elaboration/build was run. This is agent review, not human approval.