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Initial stacks lie in program support

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PvsNP.initList_supported

by alexcarter · Sep 13, 2026 · Mathlib 0df444a (Lean v4.33.1)

complexity-theoryformalizationp-vs-np

Every initialized input word uses only symbols from machineSymbols.

Status: Local proof checked; unpublished draft statement.

Formal statement
import Definitions.Def_PvsNPSupport

namespace PvsNP
theorem initList_supported (M : Turing.FinTM2) (w : List (M.Γ M.k₀)) :
    SupportedStacks M (machineSymbols M) (Turing.initList M w).stk := by sorry
end PvsNP
Source
Mathlib exact revision 0df444a360eaa60ab8c11dca51a86af692955474, Mathlib/Computability/TuringMachine/Computable.lean and StackTuringMachine.lean; https://github.com/leanprover-community/mathlib4/blob/0df444a360eaa60ab8c11dca51a86af692955474/Mathlib/Computability/TuringMachine/Computable.lean; direct structural induction on these source definitions; newly supplied local proof.
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What the Lean code literally says, in plain math · gpt-6-astra

For every machine MMM and every finite word www over its input alphabet Γk0\Gamma_{k_0}Γk0​​, initialize the configuration with the main label, the initial control state, www on stack k0k_0k0​, and the empty list on every other stack. Every tagged symbol in every stack of this initial configuration belongs to UMU_MUM​: ∀k∈K, ∀a∈Γk\forall k\in K,\ \forall a\in\Gamma_k∀k∈K, ∀a∈Γk​, membership of aaa in that initialized stack implies (k,a)∈UM(k,a)\in U_M(k,a)∈UM​. The word may be empty and is not required to satisfy any separate input-encoding promise. Here MMM is a TM2 machine with a finite type KKK of stack indices and decidable equality on KKK, designated input and output indices k0,k1k_0,k_1k0​,k1​, stack-symbol types Γk\Gamma_kΓk​, a finite type Λ\LambdaΛ of program labels with a main label, a finite type σ\sigmaσ of control states with an initial state, a finite input alphabet Γk0\Gamma_{k_0}Γk0​​, and a statement m(ℓ)m(\ell)m(ℓ) for each label ℓ∈Λ\ell\in\Lambdaℓ∈Λ. No finiteness of Γk\Gamma_kΓk​ for other kkk is assumed. A tagged symbol (k,a)(k,a)(k,a) has k∈Kk\in Kk∈K and a∈Γka\in\Gamma_ka∈Γk​; tags from different stacks remain distinct. For a statement qqq, its set U(q)U(q)U(q) of syntactically possible pushed tagged symbols is recursively defined: a push onto kkk with symbol function f:σ→Γkf:\sigma\to\Gamma_kf:σ→Γk​ and continuation q0q_0q0​ contributes {(k,f(v)):v∈σ}∪U(q0)\{(k,f(v)):v\in\sigma\}\cup U(q_0){(k,f(v)):v∈σ}∪U(q0​); a peek, pop, or control-state load contributes only its continuation’s set; a conditional branch contributes the union of both branch sets; a jump to a program label and a halt contribute the empty set. Thus both branch bodies and all control states are counted, regardless of reachability, while a jump does not recursively inspect its target. Put UM={(k0,a):a∈Γk0}∪⋃ℓ∈ΛU(m(ℓ))U_M=\{(k_0,a):a\in\Gamma_{k_0}\}\cup\bigcup_{\ell\in\Lambda}U(m(\ell))UM​={(k0​,a):a∈Γk0​​}∪⋃ℓ∈Λ​U(m(ℓ)), including every input-alphabet symbol and all syntactically possible pushes from every labeled statement.

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