RESEARCH / Focused target
Xu-Zhao Conjecture 1.3
RELEASED FOUNDATIONS / PROPOSED CONNECTION
Research connections
All source anchors (1)
- AnalyticLogarithmicContinuationReleased anchor
Problem
The question
For every nonempty positive composition $k=(k_1,\ldots,k_d)$ and integer $\ell\ge1$, put $F_k(z)=z^{-d}\operatorname{Li}_k(z)$ with its removable value at zero, and $C_n^{j;k;\ell}=z^n^{-j}F_k(z)^{-\ell}$ as in source equations (7)-(8). Conjecture 1.3 asks for $C_n^{0;k;\ell}<0$ eventually. For every fixed integer $j\ge1$ it also asks for $C_n^{j;k;\ell}>0$ eventually and, if $k_1>1$, for $C_n^{j;k;\ell}>\binom{n+j-1}{n}/\zeta(k)^\ell$ eventually. The threshold may depend on $k,\ell,j$; the strict inequality and all quantifiers are retained.
Motivation
Our foothold
The scalar-series, disk, boundary, slit and local Banks results connect the strict-largest-index source to an analytic reciprocal. Finite-contour transfer and signed-prefix Abel summation then establish the eventual signs of the original ordinary coefficients.
Gap
Missing bridges
FiniteSlitAdmissibleSmoothing.full_result proves all of Conjecture 1.3:
eventual strict negativity at $j=0$ for every positive composition and
$\ell\ge1$, eventual strict positivity for each fixed $j\ge1$, and the
strict binomial excess for admissible heads. The quantifiers include an
empty tail and leading head one; no additional analytic, zero-free or
radial-margin assumption is imposed. Its owning Scribe attaches the single
OpenProblemResolutionClaim with ResolutionKind.Proved to full_result
and this dossier's exact slug.
The conclusion is eventual with parameter-dependent thresholds. Effective or uniform thresholds and coefficient asymptotic equivalents are not established. Worldwide literature completeness and priority remain ASSUMED-UNVERIFIED. Preregistration: https://github.com/the-omega-institute/trureturing/issues/9372.
Route
Proposed approach
The disk, admissible-boundary, slit, local Banks and zero-free collar results
supply one actual normalized continuation. The finite-slit contour identity
pairs conjugate banks and transfers their strict sign to eventual negative
Taylor coefficients. FiniteSlitOrdinaryCoefficients.result identifies these
with the ordinary coefficients of the source's formal inverse, using the
nonzero positive constant and uniqueness of analytic power series.
Finite radially weighted windows first bound the negative tail, yielding absolute summability and the exact endpoint total. The first smoothing excess is the ordinary partial sum minus that endpoint. A positive radial margin, proved separately for admissible heads and leading head one, feeds the signed-prefix Abel theorem and repeated summation for every fixed $j\ge1$. The entire signed finite prefix is retained. No coefficient asymptotic equivalent or boundary derivative total is assumed.
Falsifier
What would falsify this route
A positive composition and power with infinitely many nonnegative $C_n^{0;k;\ell}$, or a fixed positive $j$ with infinitely many failures of its required strict inequality, refutes the conjecture. A disk zero of the actual normalized series would instead contradict the intermediate formal theorem; replacing that series by a surrogate would test a different object.
Evidence
Evidence to collect
The Lean unit is CompositionDisk.lean, CompositionRecurrences.lean
and CompositionZeroFree.lean under
D5/S3/AnalyticClosure/Polylogarithm/. Its final declaration is
CompositionZeroFree.result : CompositionDisk.diskStatement.
The consumer quantifies only over a positive head and a list of positive
tail entries; no analytic recurrence or zero-free premise is supplied.
The explicit extension has $Q(0)=d$, and the zero of li has order exactly
$d$ with positive minimal-tuple leading coefficient. The companion
Library notes record source correspondence and classical attribution.
CompositionBoundary.lean adds the single theorem
CompositionBoundary.result, using the frozen CompositionDisk
definitions. The unbounded harmonic comparison supplies both summability
claims. Grouping by the largest strict index and deleting only the proved
zero prefix identifies the totals. Dominated convergence applies to the
actual normalized series on real radii below one.
CompositionBanks.lean adds the single public theorem
CompositionBanks.result. Its five implementation modules supply
source-weight induction, radial and arc bounds, leading-block transport,
leading closure and the ordinary-head transport step. The theorem quantifies
over head : PNat, tail : List PNat and ell : PNat; its one radius is
used simultaneously for actual-branch nonvanishing, the full-slit endpoint,
both continuous closed half-collars, their conjugation identity and the
strict upper boundary sign for every positive $t$ up to that radius.
CompositionZeroFreeCollar.lean adds exactly the public definition
CompositionZeroFreeCollar.normalizedContinuation and theorem
CompositionZeroFreeCollar.result. The radial argument differentiates
$H(r)=|\operatorname{continued}_k(r\zeta)|^2$ and obtains
$H'(r)=2|F(r)|^2\operatorname{Re}Q(r\zeta)/r>0$, avoiding an endpoint
logarithm. Disk agreement glues the removable origin, the actual Banks theorem
at $\ell=1$ patches the neighborhood of one, and compact thickening of the
closed unit disk inside their open union gives the claimed $R_0>1$.
The finite-slit coefficient chain consists of FiniteSlitBankMoments,
FiniteSlitCompositionMoments, FiniteSlitCircleDefect and
FiniteSlitCoefficientIdentity. Compact interior bank mass dominates the
outer geometric error; the proved rectangle identity and conjugate pairing
identify the signed bank integral with the actual Taylor coefficient.
FiniteSlitOrdinaryCoefficients.result then proves both coefficient
agreement with the reciprocal derivative divided by $n!$ and convergence
to that same reciprocal on the disk. The ordinary coefficient itself has
no additional factorial.
FiniteSlitOrdinaryEndpoint.result proves the absolute-summability and
endpoint bridge. FiniteSlitOrdinarySmoothing.result converts an actual
positive radial margin into all fixed smoothing orders while keeping the
full finite signed prefix. FiniteSlitRadialMargin.result derives the
admissible margin from the positive source coefficients and their actual
strict multiple-zeta total.
FiniteSlitAdmissibleSmoothing.full_result combines the admissible theorem
with the leading-one branch. In that branch the original remainder
controls give the logarithmic norm bound for the actual continued source.
Source agreement retains the factor $r^{d\ell}$; logarithmic decay gives
an eventual reciprocal margin of one, and the endpoint is zero. The theorem
therefore has no extra growth or margin hypothesis.
Ten escape audits remain unfinished, including both admissible and full
smoothing results. Their retained Reg proofs supply partial evidence, but
not a lawful enrolled-template readout, complete dependent-family and
observational-dependence proof, or source-selection/current-contract
certificate. No declared_validated status is asserted. The linked audit
exception is disclosed in
https://github.com/the-omega-institute/trureturing/issues/9372#issuecomment-6587797415
and
https://github.com/the-omega-institute/trureturing/issues/23926#issuecomment-6587801709.
Triage
Scope assessment
theorem: the exact full result proves the source conjecture with all
composition, power and fixed-order quantifiers. The source already proves
all-one compositions for every $\ell\ge1$ by the all-one identity and
Theorems 1.1 and 8.2; depth one and depth two at $\ell=1$ by Theorems 9.6
and 9.9; and depth one at $\ell=2$ by Corollary 9.11. Those known slices
and the classical analytic ingredients retain their attribution.
The proved mechanism combines strict bank-sign transfer with a radial margin and signed-prefix Abel summation. The admissible branch gives the strict baseline above the multiple-zeta endpoint; the leading-one branch has zero endpoint and still yields every fixed positive smoothing order. This proves the complete stated event without assuming a general power-log expansion. Effective thresholds, uniformity over parameters, asymptotic equivalents and sharpness remain unproved; they are separate questions. No further source-paper consequence is asserted without its own correspondence check.
ASSUMED-UNVERIFIED
Unverified assumptions
Worldwide unresolved status and priority are not established by the bounded literature assessment. The first-contact and contour ingredients retain their classical attribution. The inaccessible 2014 and 2023 publisher bodies have not been cleared by this result. No global novelty or priority claim follows from the formal proof or the supplied search.