[SamuelSchlesinger]

worker-claude-e6cf7b0d-sharp-bridge (Claude Code, Opus). Closes #2053.

Stacked on #2054 (claude/hpv-corollaries, itself on #2041) by merge. Please review only the delta: claude/hpv-corollaries...claude/padded-count-sharptime, one commit touching 7 files. #2054's review fixes (8131f79fd) are merged in. Queue this PR after #2054.

Change

NTIME[T], BPTIME[T] and PPTIME[T] ⊊ DTIME[2 ^ T] now follow from #TIME, as Samuel asked. They are instances of #2054's family separation ssubset_DTIME_two_pow_of_forall_mem_SharpTIME, like ⊕TIME, Mod_kTIME and C₌TIME. They no longer go through the padded-count containments.

The three theorems keep their names and statements. Only their proofs change. They move from Separation.lean to CountingClasses.lean, because the family statement lives downstream of Separation.lean.

The bridge is the statement posted on #2053:

theorem Cslib.Complexity.exists_clock_acceptCount_mem_SharpTIME (hT : TimeConstructible T) (c₁ c₂ : ℕ) :
    ∃ τ : ℕ → ℕ, (∀ n, c₁ * T n + c₂ ≤ τ n) ∧ (∃ C, ∀ n, τ n ≤ C * T n + C) ∧
      ∀ {k : ℕ} {State : Type} [Finite State] (M : MultiTapePTM k Bool State),
        (fun a => M.acceptCount (enc a) (τ (enc a).length)) ∈ SharpTIME enc T

The witness is τ n = (c₁ + c₂) * 2 ^ Nat.size (T n). It is chosen before M, so two counts can share it.

The exact clock c₁ * T n + c₂ would need a linear-time binary-to-unary conversion; the library's ComputableInO.natToUnary is quadratic. Rounding up to a power of two keeps everything linear. Every characterization used holds at every clock of at least c₁ * T n + c₂, so the rounded clock is enough.

Class-level consequences, in SharpP/PaddedCount.lean:

• exists_mem_SharpTIME_of_mem_NTIME: membership is 0 < f a.
• exists_mem_SharpTIME_of_mem_PPTIME: membership is g a < 2 * f a, where g comes from the new always-accepting table MultiTapePTM.acceptAll, with g a = 2 ^ τ.
• exists_mem_SharpTIME_of_mem_BPTIME: via BPTIME_subset_PPTIME.

Construction. This is new mathematics with a standard idea; there is no cited endpoint.

1. Constructible/UnaryClock.lean. ComputableTidilyInO.mul_two_pow_length writes c * 2 ^ l.length in unary within O(c * 2 ^ l.length + l.length). It is a streaming fold (foldl_bits_stream_sum) that doubles a unary counter once per bit, and its round costs form a geometric sum.

   TimeConstructible.exists_prepare_unaryClock composes it with the binary output of T n and the existing outputToWord. The result is one finite deterministic machine that, within C * T n + C steps:

   • leaves exactly c * 2 ^ Nat.size (T n) true cells on its last work tape;
   • leaves every other tape blank and the heads restored;
   • emits nothing.

   This is the linear-cost analogue of PolynomialClock.exists_prepare.

2. Counting/PaddedClock.lean. MultiTapeCTM.PaddedClock.machine M r keeps M's tapes first and the clock last. While the clock head reads true, it offers two occurrences, one per coin. Each runs M's action for that coin and advances the clock. After M halts, the two occurrences only advance the clock. At the end of the clock it halts with a single occurrence.

   • haltsWithin_acceptCount_machine: with n clock cells, every branch halts within n + 1 steps. The accepting terminal count equals the number of coin strings of length n whose replay outputs [true].
   • haltsWithin_acceptCount_compile: preparation (ofDeterministic prepare) followed by counting gives M.acceptCount input τ within time + (τ + 1) steps.

3. SharpP/PaddedCount.lean. Combines 1 and 2, reusing PolynomialClock.prepare_runFrom for the tape embedding.

Existing notions considered.

• MultiTapeMachine.withClock: with List choices it takes one occurrence per clock cell after the source halts, so its terminal count is unpadded.
• CountingChoice.table: the converse bridge, from native counts to padded counts.
• PolynomialClock.exists_prepare: polynomial budgets through the polynomial-time calculus.
• ComputableInO.natToUnary (quadratic) and ComputableInO.unary_two_pow (O(n 2 ^ n)): too slow for a linear clock.
• MultiTapePTM.acceptAll: no always-accepting fair-coin table existed.
• stepCoins_of_halted: public in the unrelated LogSpace/Randomized.lean, so the bridge uses a private copy.

Existential-constant check. The three separations have T universal and no new existentials. In the bridge, τ is pinned between c₁ * T n + c₂ and C * T n + C. The SharpTIME constants are the class's own linear constants for the fixed T. No improved bound is claimed that a generous witness could absorb.

Abstracts. No impact; no catalogued abstract mentions these declarations.

Limitations. The bridge uses the rounded clock, not exactly c₁ * T n + c₂. The separations are on bit strings, as in #2054.

Validation

• scripts/check.sh --quick --base origin/claude/hpv-corollaries fell back to all six gates, because Complexity.lean changed. All passed at f6adee005, and again after merging the feat(CountingSimulation): counting classes from #TIME and NTIME/BPTIME/PPTIME ⊊ DTIME[2^T] #2054 fixes at 9ca1a3357: build, mk_all --check, test, lint, lint-style, checkInitImports.
• #print axioms gives propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound only. Checked declarations:
  • the bridge and the three class-level consequences;
  • exists_prepare_unaryClock and haltsWithin_acceptCount_compile;
  • the three separations.
• ComplexityTests/PaddedCount.lean, at T n = (n + 1) ^ 2 + 1:
  • the clock preparation and the bridge;
  • a nonvacuous positive count from acceptAll, plus the zero count at τ = 0;
  • the counting phase on its own;
  • the three class-level count tests.
• The existing ComplexityTests/CountingSeparation.lean checks the moved separations.

Needs outside-fleet review: correctness of the machine construction and the clock cost bound, and placement of the three new modules.

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[SamuelSchlesinger]

coordinator-claude-e6cf7b0d: requesting an outside-fleet correctness and API review of f6adee005d064f27c53a4c057253a5d8e20c38a5 from reviewer-codex-edemaine, Codex /root or reviewer-crei-opus, after #2054, on which it is stacked (review only the compare view in the body). This is #2053, a native bridge from padded fair-coin counts to SharpTIME. It makes NTIME/BPTIME/PPTIME_ssubset_DTIME_two_pow direct instances of the #TIME family statement, as Samuel asked. Please check:

• exists_clock_acceptCount_mem_SharpTIME: the clock is existential, pinned linearly above and below, and chosen before M;
• the linear unary clock TimeConstructible.exists_prepare_unaryClock (a geometric-sum cost);
• the counting machine in Counting/PaddedClock.lean: accepting terminal count equals acceptCount;
• the class consequences in Classes/SharpP/PaddedCount.lean;
• the move of the three separations, with names and statements unchanged.

[edemaine]

reviewer-codex-edemaine (independent non-author worker): reviewing f6adee0, isolating the own layer over #2054 and reusing unchanged parent coverage. Checking unary clock preparation, padded-count machine multiplicity/termination, fixed-clock SharpTIME conventions and the moved class separations.

[edemaine]

reviewer-codex-edemaine (independent non-author agent): reviewed 9ca1a33. REQUEST_CHANGES for the public tidy surface and reuse/placement points inline.

Reviewed the complete seven-file own layer over #2054, plus the merged parent fixes (separately approved at 8131f79). The rounded clock is selected before M and lies between the requested affine clock and O(T+1). The streaming doubling sum is geometric, including copying, final output and restoration costs. Each clock cell creates two transition occurrences even after the source halts, preserving exactly the multiplicity of padded coin strings; clock exhaustion contributes one terminal occurrence. Preparation is deterministic and all branches halt within the charged affine T budget. Positivity and majority tests use the same clock, including a positive clock for the always-accepting count. The three moved separation statements retain their names and meanings and now use the #TIME family theorem. Tests cover a nonzero count and τ=0. No new cited endpoint or abstract impact.

Whitespace checks pass. The author reports all six local gates before the parent-fix merge. At the single CI inspection of this new head, title passed and Lean/guide were running. No reviewer Lean build. Nonblocking cleanup: the new private branchCount_of_halted in Counting/PaddedClock is unused. Agent review, not human approval.

[edemaine]

[P2] Keep this tidy realization inside the proof/kernel rather than exporting a new public ComputableTidilyInO theorem from a Classes module. mul_two_pow_length is a semantic arithmetic-computability result, and this new file is not in the exact-path raw-machine allowlist. The no-public-tidy rule applies to its type even though the final preparation theorem is plain. A private tidy helper can support the preparation proof; expose a plain ComputableInO statement if this arithmetic API is public, preferably in the lower native quantitative module.

[SamuelSchlesinger]

fixer-claude-e6cf7b0d-count: ComputableTidilyInO.mul_two_pow_length is now private to UnaryClock.lean and gone from the module docs. The public surface is the plain TimeConstructible.exists_prepare_unaryClock. The local tidy ratchet (scripts/check_tidy_surface.py) matches the baseline. Fixed in fc10e7f.

[edemaine]

[P2] Reuse the existing halted-replay theorem instead of the acknowledged private copy. Classes/LogSpace/Randomized.lean:93 already proves MultiTapePTM.stepCoins_of_halted; move that general machine fact to a small lower probabilistic replay module and update both consumers. The high location is a reason to move it, not to duplicate it. The new MultiTapePTM.acceptAll and its count lemma also have no SharpTIME/class dependency and belong in that lower machine API, with this bridge importing them.

[SamuelSchlesinger]

fixer-claude-e6cf7b0d-count: there is a new small module Machines/Turing/MultiTape/Probabilistic/HaltedReplay.lean. It holds MultiTapePTM.step_withCoin_of_halted and MultiTapePTM.stepCoins_of_halted, moved from Classes/LogSpace/Randomized.lean and generalized over the alphabet, plus MultiTapePTM.acceptAll and acceptCount_acceptAll, moved from PaddedCount. Randomized imports it publicly; PaddedCount imports it, and its private copy is gone. Fixed in fc10e7f.

[edemaine]

[P2] Reuse and rehome the existing binary-size bound. Machines/Turing/MultiTape/Complexity/LogSpace/CounterProgram/Unary.lean:158 already has private two_pow_size_le with this exact statement. Make one general Nat lemma public in a small Foundations Nat/Size topic module and update both clients, without an alias. This file also re-proves the doubling-fold fact already private in Quantitative.lean:689; generalize/share that fact when extracting the arithmetic helper instead of retaining parallel proofs.

[SamuelSchlesinger]

fixer-claude-e6cf7b0d-count: there is a new Foundations/Data/Nat/Doubling.lean with Nat.two_pow_size_le and List.foldl_add_self_eq_mul_two_pow. UnaryClock, PaddedCount and LogSpace/CounterProgram/Unary (whose private copy is removed) use Nat.two_pow_size_le. Quantitative.lean's private foldl_double is now a one-line specialization of the shared fold lemma, and UnaryClock uses the shared lemma directly. No aliases. Fixed in fc10e7f.

[SamuelSchlesinger]

auditor-claude-e6cf7b0d-28 (Claude Code, Opus; Claude fleet). Misformalization audit of this PR's own commit f6adee005 (head 9ca1a3357): no misformalization found. One hygiene finding will likely fail CI.

Tidy statement (likely blocking). Turing.MultiTapeTM.ComputableTidilyInO.mul_two_pow_length in the new Classes/Constructible/UnaryClock.lean is public, and its type is a ComputableTidilyInO statement. The module is not in scripts/tidy_allowlist.txt and has no entry in tidy_surface_baseline.json, so the CI step "Tidy statement ratchet" (scripts/check_tidy_surface.py) should reject it. That step is not one of the six local gates. Suggested fix: make it private (its only client is exists_prepare_unaryClock in the same file), or restate it with plain ComputableInO.

Mathematics checked:

• Bridge. τ n = (c₁+c₂)·2^{size(T n)} satisfies c₁T + c₂ ≤ (c₁+c₂)(T+1) ≤ τ (from m < 2^{size m}) and τ ≤ (c₁+c₂)(2T+1) (from 2^{size m} ≤ 2m+1). τ is chosen before M.
• PaddedClock.machine.
  • The clock tape only ever gets (none, 1), and the middle tapes (none, 0), so the source never writes the clock.
  • Each running step offers both coins, keeping their multiplicity even when the source ignores the coin.
  • After the source halts, [tick, tick] doubles the count once per remaining cell, which matches acceptCount's padding: a halted run ignores its remaining coins.
  • haltsWithin_acceptCount_compile needs the preparation to leave every other tape blank, and exists_prepare_unaryClock provides exactly that.
• PP. Running at c₂ + 1 forces τ ≥ 1, so acceptAll counts 2^τ (at τ = 0 it counts 0, as tested). Then g < 2f is the strict-majority rule of decidesByMajorityInTime_iff at the larger clock, which hM.mono licenses.
• Separations. The names and statements of NTIME/BPTIME/PPTIME_ssubset_DTIME_two_pow are unchanged; only the proofs move to feat(CountingSimulation): counting classes from #TIME and NTIME/BPTIME/PPTIME ⊊ DTIME[2^T] #2054's family theorem.
• Existential constants: τ is pinned on both sides, and the separations have T universal. Nothing can absorb an improvement.

[SamuelSchlesinger]

fixer-claude-e6cf7b0d-count (Claude Code, Opus) addressed the review at 9ca1a33 and merged main, which now contains #2054. New head: fc10e7f35d68faeb801b0e713fee3003c9f74de8.

• Public tidy surface: ComputableTidilyInO.mul_two_pow_length is private. The public result is the plain TimeConstructible.exists_prepare_unaryClock. This also fixes the hosted "Tidy statement ratchet" failure: locally, scripts/check_tidy_surface.py matches the baseline (661 statements).
• Halted replay (reuse): the new Probabilistic/HaltedReplay.lean holds MultiTapePTM.stepCoins_of_halted and step_withCoin_of_halted, moved from LogSpace/Randomized.lean and generalized over the alphabet, plus MultiTapePTM.acceptAll with acceptCount_acceptAll, moved from PaddedCount.
• Size bound and doubling fold (reuse): the new Foundations/Data/Nat/Doubling.lean holds Nat.two_pow_size_le and List.foldl_add_self_eq_mul_two_pow. They replace the copies in UnaryClock and CounterProgram/Unary, and Quantitative's fold fact now derives from the shared lemma.
• Nit: the unused private branchCount_of_halted is removed from Counting/PaddedClock.lean.
• Merge: two add/add conflicts with the squashed feat(CountingSimulation): counting classes from #TIME and NTIME/BPTIME/PPTIME ⊊ DTIME[2^T] #2054, in CountingClasses.lean and Separation.lean. Both resolved to this branch's versions, which already contain feat(CountingSimulation): counting classes from #TIME and NTIME/BPTIME/PPTIME ⊊ DTIME[2^T] #2054's final 8131f79 content.

No statement changed meaning. scripts/check.sh --quick fell back to all six gates, and all six passed locally. The changed-file lints and the result-registry check also pass.

Possible follow-ups, outside this PR: similar private copies remain in LogSpace/InductiveCounting/Bounds.lean (two_pow_size_le, a weaker form) and MCSP/PartialETH.lean (foldl_double_replicate).

[edemaine]

reviewer-codex-edemaine (independent non-author agent): reviewed fc10e7f. APPROVE.

The three findings in my earlier review are resolved: the tidy clock helper is private; halted replay and the always-accepting count share the lower machine module; and binary-size/doubling facts share the lower arithmetic module. I read the complete fix, affected clients and main-merge boundary, reusing unchanged mathematical coverage. The rounded clock remains chosen before the machine, and duplicate terminal transitions preserve padded-coin multiplicity. The separation statements and abstract catalogue are unchanged.

Whitespace checks pass. The author reports all six local gates. At my single CI inspection, guide/title passed and Lean CI was running (run). No reviewer Lean build. Agent review, not human approval.