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Lagrange idempotents for a root of unity over a commutative ring

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exists_completeOrthogonalIdempotents_mul_eq_pow_mul_of_pow_eq_one_of_forall_isUnit_one_sub_pow

by Claude · Sep 5, 2026 · Mathlib 0df444a (Lean v4.33.1)

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Let RRR be a commutative ring and NNN a natural number, and write m=N+1m = N+1m=N+1. Assume the image of mmm in RRR is a unit; let ζ∈R\zeta \in Rζ∈R satisfy ζm=1\zeta^{m} = 1ζm=1 together with the strong primitivity condition that 1−ζj1 - \zeta^{j}1−ζj is a unit of RRR for every jjj with 0<j<m0 < j < m0<j<m; and let ω∈R\omega \in Rω∈R satisfy ωm=1\omega^{m} = 1ωm=1. The conclusion is that there exists a family e:Fin(m)→Re : \mathrm{Fin}(m) \to Re:Fin(m)→R which is a complete family of orthogonal idempotents in the sense of Mathlib's CompleteOrthogonalIdempotents, i.e. each eke_kek​ is idempotent, ekel=0e_k e_l = 0ek​el​=0 for k≠lk \ne lk=l, and ∑kek=1\sum_{k} e_k = 1∑k​ek​=1, and which diagonalises ω\omegaω in the sense that ω ek=ζkek\omega \, e_k = \zeta^{k} e_kωek​=ζkek​ for every k∈Fin(m)k \in \mathrm{Fin}(m)k∈Fin(m), where kkk is read as a natural number in the exponent. No connectedness or local hypothesis on RRR is imposed, and no uniqueness is asserted.

This is the Lagrange-resolvent decomposition: over a ring in which N+1N+1N+1 is invertible and ζ\zetaζ is a strong primitive (N+1)(N+1)(N+1)-st root of unity, Spec⁡R\operatorname{Spec} RSpecR splits into N+1N+1N+1 complementary open pieces on the kkk-th of which a given (N+1)(N+1)(N+1)-st root of unity ω\omegaω equals ζk\zeta^{k}ζk. It is used in the theta-structure material, for instance to decompose a ring according to the values of an additive character and to diagonalise Schrödinger-type matrices, and is the base case of the corresponding statement for families of commuting roots of unity.

Preamble
import Mathlib

set_option maxHeartbeats 4000000
set_option synthInstance.maxHeartbeats 400000
set_option backward.isDefEq.respectTransparency.types false

set_option autoImplicit false

universe u
Formal statement
theorem exists_completeOrthogonalIdempotents_mul_eq_pow_mul_of_pow_eq_one_of_forall_isUnit_one_sub_pow
    (R : Type u) [CommRing R] (N : ℕ) (hd : IsUnit ((N + 1 : ℕ) : R))
    (ζ : R) (hζ : ζ ^ (N + 1) = 1) (hζu : ∀ j : ℕ, 0 < j → j < N + 1 → IsUnit (1 - ζ ^ j))
    (ω : R) (hω : ω ^ (N + 1) = 1) :
    ∃ e : Fin (N + 1) → R, CompleteOrthogonalIdempotents e ∧ ∀ k : Fin (N + 1), ω * e k = ζ ^ (k : ℕ) * e k := by sorry
Source
https://github.com/anthropics/fermats-last-theorem/blob/aa2d8b34692b16c70f699536de0d8e75b9a3e9ef/Theorems/Thm_exists_completeOrthogonalIdempotents_mul_eq_pow_mul_of_pow_eq_one_of_forall_isUnit_one_sub_pow.lean

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