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A Lean 4 Verification Report for Completing the Arakawa–Moreau Conjecture on Maximal Ideals of Affine Vertex Algebras

Sihai Jin

math.QA Aug 23, 2026 · v1
A single-file Lean 4/Mathlib audit kernel-checks the paper-local deductions of the Arakawa–Moreau maximal-ideal proof, with VOA/BRST/DS foundations supplied as explicit hypotheses.
We report a Lean 4 formal audit accompanying the paper "Completing the Arakawa–Moreau Conjecture on Maximal Ideals of Affine Vertex Algebras" (arXiv:2607.25249). In a single Lean source, the development kernel-checks the paper-local deductive architecture used for the new maximal-ideal cases: affine-kernel detection and lifting, extremal PBW-line deductions, finite Ramond–Casimir arithmetic and case enumerations, reduced-simplicity contradiction schemes, and the case-level affine conclusions for the level -1 D_l family and the positive-parameter cases of D4, E6, E7, and E8. It also audits the paper's alternative D_l level -2 argument and the separate rank-reduction application of Section 8. Previously published exceptional n=0 cases are not claimed as newly formalized results of this bundle. The released project builds successfully with the pinned Lean/Mathlib environment and contains live #print axioms queries for the principal final wrappers. The development does not reconstruct affine vertex algebras, minimal W-algebras, BRST/DS reduction, Ramond Zhu theory, or Li spectral flow from foundational definitions in Mathlib. Those ingredients, together with the concrete realization of case-specific representation-theoretic objects, are exposed as theorem parameters and semantic interfaces. Accordingly, the precise verification claim is a kernel-checked deduction of the paper-local proof from explicitly stated VOA/BRST/DS boundary inputs, rather than a from-scratch formalization of the ambient representation theory.

A companion paper completes the Arakawa–Moreau conjecture on maximal ideals of negative-level universal affine vertex algebras of types D and E. The goal is to machine-check the paper's own deductive architecture.

The argument is split into two layers. Paper-local arithmetic, finite combinatorics, PBW saturation, reduced-simplicity logic and affine lifting are proved directly in Lean 4. Foundational VOA/BRST/DS, Ramond–Zhu and Li spectral-flow facts are exposed as theorem parameters or semantic interfaces rather than built from Mathlib definitions. Each paper result is classified into levels: internal deduction, paper-formula boundary, theorem boundary, or realization bridge.

The released project builds with pinned Lean/Mathlib and contains no sorry, admit or custom axioms. It covers the D_l level -1 family, the positive-parameter cases of D4, E6, E7 and E8, the alternative D_l level -2 argument, and the Section 8 rank-reduction step. #print axioms reports only propext, Classical.choice and Quot.sound.

TargetDependencies
D4.proposition_4_3_exact_images_over_fieldpropext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound
E6.proposition_5_7_exact_images_over_fieldpropext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound
E7.proposition_6_4_exact_images_over_fieldpropext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound
E8.corollary_7_6_exact_images_over_fieldpropext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound
RankReduction.proposition_8_1_exact_images_over_fieldpropext, Quot.sound
Axiom dependencies of principal exact-image wrappers