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Proof of `Holes are symmetric, loopless, and triangle-free`

groundedproofs/Lax342547Proofs/HoleTriangleFree.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

Symmetry exchanges the witnesses. Injectivity rules out loops. Evaluating the functional equations on the other witnesses around a triangle cancels the symmetric bilinear terms and contradicts the three parity equations.