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Proof of `Exact-image bounds for independent affine columns` (3rd statement)

groundedproofs/Lax342547Proofs/AffineImages.lean · lax-342547

What this proof establishes

no assumptions

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

A new dependence extending an injective fixed map must have a nonzero coefficient among the random columns. Its image equals a prescribed negative old image. The affine single-image bound applies to each such relation; union over old coefficients and nonzero new coefficients.