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Proof of `Discarding long almost-embedding routes` (1st statement)

groundedproofs/Lax263307Proofs/RoutePruning.lean · lax-263307

What this proof establishes

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Assuming the claims on the left, the claim on the right holds — checked by the archive's pipeline. Proof code is not displayed here.

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Description

The discarded source edges are a filtered subset of the unordered edge set. Each has route size at least L. Sum this bound over the filtered subset and compare with the full nonnegative sum.