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Conditional vertex-guard bound from uniform geometry and attachment data

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ProofsInTheBook.PolygonGeometryDischarge.artGallery_strict_of_residue

by xiangyazi24 · Sep 12, 2026 · Mathlib c5ea003 (Lean v4.30.0)

art-gallerybook-chapter-40combinatoricsconditional-resultgeometrylean4proofs-from-the-book

Let n∈Nn\in\mathbb Nn∈N and P=(q0,…,qn−1)P=(q_0,\ldots,q_{n-1})P=(q0​,…,qn−1​) be a strict simple polygon in R2\mathbb R^2R2: n≥3n\ge3n≥3, the vertices are distinct, consecutive triples are noncollinear, adjacent closed edges meet only at their common endpoint, and nonadjacent edges are disjoint. Indices are cyclic. Let r∈R2r\in\mathbb R^2r∈R2 be nonzero and not parallel to any edge. For x∈R2x\in\mathbb R^2x∈R2, put si=det⁡(r,qi−x)s_i=\det(r,q_i-x)si​=det(r,qi​−x). Count an edge in cP,r(x)c_{P,r}(x)cP,r​(x) when its endpoints satisfy (si≤0<si+1)∨(si+1≤0<si)(s_i\le0<s_{i+1})\lor(s_{i+1}\le0<s_i)(si​≤0<si+1​)∨(si+1​≤0<si​) and its intersection with the line x+Rrx+\mathbb Rrx+Rr has nonnegative ray parameter. Define the closed region K(P,r)K(P,r)K(P,r) to be the polygon boundary together with points for which cP,r(x)c_{P,r}(x)cP,r​(x) is odd. A point ggg sees xxx when the entire closed segment [g,x][g,x][g,x] lies in K(P,r)K(P,r)K(P,r).

Assume a uniform geometric-data assignment R\mathcal RR with the following content for every strict simple polygon QQQ of every order and every admissible ray direction sss. It supplies a vertex vvv whose closed adjacent triangle lies in K(Q,s)K(Q,s)K(Q,s). It also supplies the following transversality conditions at vvv: if the adjacent triangle contains no other polygon vertices, the open segment joining the neighbors of vvv avoids the polygon boundary; for each enclosed vertex maximizing the affine height h(z)=orient⁡(qv−1,qv+1,z)/orient⁡(qv−1,qv+1,qv)h(z)=\operatorname{orient}(q_{v-1},q_{v+1},z)/\operatorname{orient}(q_{v-1},q_{v+1},q_v)h(z)=orient(qv−1​,qv+1​,z)/orient(qv−1​,qv+1​,qv​) toward vvv, the open segment from vvv to that vertex avoids the boundary. For every diagonal of QQQ (a segment between distinct nonadjacent vertices, contained in K(Q,s)K(Q,s)K(Q,s) and meeting the boundary only at its endpoints), R\mathcal RR supplies strict-polygon noncollinearity and edge-intersection conditions for both cyclic-arc subpolygons, and admissible ray directions on both subpolygons whose vectors equal sss. Write KL,KRK_L,K_RKL​,KR​ for their closed regions and DDD for the diagonal. These data must satisfy: off all three polygon boundaries, KLK_LKL​ and KRK_RKR​ are disjoint; at every point on any of the three boundaries, membership in K(Q,s)K(Q,s)K(Q,s) is equivalent to membership in KL∪KRK_L\cup K_RKL​∪KR​; and KL∩KR=DK_L\cap K_R=DKL​∩KR​=D. This is the full universally quantified input named PolygonGeomResidue, not a conclusion about an individual polygon.

Assume in addition the universal attachment condition M\mathcal MM, named DiagonalAttachInput for the fixed base-triangle certificate BBB used in the declaration. For every order, strict polygon, admissible ray, local-cut-data package, and valid diagonal, and for every pair of child ear-triangulations with every pair of compatible combinatorial-glue certificates based on BBB, remap the child vertex indices into the parent. Let AAA and VAV_AVA​ be the left triangle family and its vertices. The supplied right inductive triangulation must satisfy AttachesTo: its initial triangle has an edge shared with a triangle of AAA and a third vertex outside VAV_AVA​; every later attachment vertex is also outside VAV_AVA​. This condition applies to the supplied inductive triangulation itself; it does not merely assert that some reordering exists. The certificate BBB is the fixed expression baseTriangleFacts_of_leaf(baseTriangleLeaf_of_atoms(triangleConvexLeaf_holds, triangleExteriorEven_unconditional)); it is not an additional freely quantified hypothesis. Then there exists G⊆{0,…,n−1}G\subseteq\{0,\ldots,n-1\}G⊆{0,…,n−1} such that

∣G∣≤⌊n/3⌋,∀x∈K(P,r), ∃v∈G,[qv,x]⊆K(P,r).|G|\le\lfloor n/3\rfloor,\qquad\forall x\in K(P,r),\ \exists v\in G,\quad[q_v,x]\subseteq K(P,r).∣G∣≤⌊n/3⌋,∀x∈K(P,r), ∃v∈G,[qv​,x]⊆K(P,r).

This is a conditional art-gallery implication from the two uniform inputs. It neither constructs those inputs nor establishes that they are jointly satisfiable.

Preamble
import Init
import Mathlib
import Definitions.Def_P2MAssembly_Chapter36Geometry
set_option autoImplicit true
open ProofsInTheBook.PolygonGeometryDischarge
open ProofsInTheBook
open ProofsInTheBook.PolygonSubstrate
open ProofsInTheBook.PolygonSideCrossing
open ProofsInTheBook.PolygonCutOracle
open ProofsInTheBook.PolygonOracle (CommonRay OffDiagDisjoint)


open ProofsInTheBook.PolygonCutGeometry
  (PolygonGeometryInput  )
open ProofsInTheBook.PolygonFinish (UnconditionalRayIndepInput)
open ProofsInTheBook.PolygonLast (DiagonalAttachInput)
open ProofsInTheBook.PolygonRayIndep (Sees)
variable {n : ℕ}
Formal statement
theorem ProofsInTheBook.PolygonGeometryDischarge.artGallery_strict_of_residue {n : ℕ}
    (R : ProofsInTheBook.PolygonGeomInput.PolygonGeomResidue)
    (M : DiagonalAttachInput
      (ProofsInTheBook.PolygonOracleClose.baseTriangleFacts_of_leaf
        (ProofsInTheBook.PolygonLeaf.baseTriangleLeaf_of_atoms
          ProofsInTheBook.PolygonTriangleConvex.triangleConvexLeaf_holds
          ProofsInTheBook.PolygonDegenerateWall.triangleExteriorEven_unconditional)))
    (P : StrictSimplePolygon n) (ρ : RayDirection P) :
    ∃ guards : Finset (Fin n), guards.card ≤ n / 3 ∧
      ∀ x : Pt, ClosedRegion' P ρ x →
        ∃ v ∈ guards, Sees P ρ (P.q v) x := by sorry
Source
Original formalization: https://github.com/xiangyazi24/proof_in_the_book/blob/88d88d141768cded75e782c525ef1bf04b8fe220/ProofsInTheBook/PolygonGeometryDischarge.lean#L251 (headline); https://github.com/xiangyazi24/proof_in_the_book/blob/88d88d141768cded75e782c525ef1bf04b8fe220/ProofsInTheBook/PolygonGeomInput.lean#L266 (uniform residue); https://github.com/xiangyazi24/proof_in_the_book/blob/88d88d141768cded75e782c525ef1bf04b8fe220/ProofsInTheBook/PolygonOracleClose.lean#L270 (residual fields); https://github.com/xiangyazi24/proof_in_the_book/blob/88d88d141768cded75e782c525ef1bf04b8fe220/ProofsInTheBook/PolygonLast.lean#L340 (universal attachment premise); https://github.com/xiangyazi24/proof_in_the_book/blob/88d88d141768cded75e782c525ef1bf04b8fe220/ProofsInTheBook/PolygonLast.lean#L104 (attachment predicate); https://github.com/xiangyazi24/proof_in_the_book/blob/88d88d141768cded75e782c525ef1bf04b8fe220/ProofsInTheBook/PolygonSubstrate.lean#L151 (strict polygon); https://github.com/xiangyazi24/proof_in_the_book/blob/88d88d141768cded75e782c525ef1bf04b8fe220/ProofsInTheBook/PolygonSubstrate.lean#L205 (ray direction); https://github.com/xiangyazi24/proof_in_the_book/blob/88d88d141768cded75e782c525ef1bf04b8fe220/ProofsInTheBook/PolygonSideCrossing.lean#L276 (closed region); https://github.com/xiangyazi24/proof_in_the_book/blob/88d88d141768cded75e782c525ef1bf04b8fe220/ProofsInTheBook/PolygonRayIndep.lean#L676 (visibility). Topic: Aigner and Ziegler, Proofs from THE BOOK, 6th edition, Chapter 40, “How to guard a museum”, pp. 281–284 (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-57265-8_40).

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