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Conway's Refinement Conjecture for Omnific Integers

The repository gives a Lean proof of Conway's 1976 refinement conjecture for omnific integers: whenever ab=cd ab=cd with a,b,c,dOza,b,c,d\in\mathbf{Oz}, there exist e,f,g,hOze,f,g,h\in\mathbf{Oz} satisfying a=ef,b=gh,c=eg,d=fh. a=ef,\quad b=gh,\quad c=eg,\quad d=fh. The proof is formalized twice: once using CombinatorialGames' surreal-number implementation and once with the required surreal definitions inlined over Mathlib. The development also proves stronger structural results about factorization in Hahn-series integer parts and related generalized power-series rings.

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Conway's Refinement Conjecture for Omnific Integers

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The repository gives a Lean proof of Conway's 1976 refinement conjecture for omnific integers: whenever ab=cd ab=cd with a,b,c,dOza,b,c,d\in\mathbf{Oz}, there exist e,f,g,hOze,f,g,h\in\mathbf{Oz} satisfying a=ef,b=gh,c=eg,d=fh. a=ef,\quad b=gh,\quad c=eg,\quad d=fh. The proof is formalized twice: once using CombinatorialGames' surreal-number implementation and once with the required surreal definitions inlined over Mathlib. The development also…

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The repository gives a Lean proof of Conway's 1976 refinement conjecture for omnific integers: whenever ab=cd ab=cd with a,b,c,dOza,b,c,d\in\mathbf{Oz}, there exist e,f,g,hOze,f,g,h\in\mathbf{Oz} satisfying a=ef,b=gh,c=eg,d=fh. a=ef,\quad b=gh,\quad c=eg,\quad d=fh. The proof is formalized twice: once using CombinatorialGames' surreal-number implementation and once with the required surreal definitions inlined over Mathlib. The development also proves stronger structural results about factorization in Hahn-series integer parts and related generalized power-series rings.

The repository gives a Lean proof of Conway's 1976 refinement conjecture for omnific integers: whenever ab=cd ab=cd with a,b,c,dOza,b,c,d\in\mathbf{Oz}, there exist e,f,g,hOze,f,g,h\in\mathbf{Oz} satisfying a=ef,b=gh,c=eg,d=fh. a=ef,\quad b=gh,\quad c=eg,\quad d=fh. The proof is formalized twice: once using CombinatorialGames' surreal-number implementation and once with the required surreal definitions inlined over Mathlib. The development also proves stronger structural results about factorization in Hahn-series integer parts and related generalized power-series rings.

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