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Theorem 2, Corollary 3 and their field specialization are covered by the graded whole-conclusion review. The project argument is credited to Plasma AI. It adapts the prose proof in Sections 2 and 3 of the OpenAI plane-coloring manuscript, at its September 23, 2026 version, external release revision adc7f1241. Those sections were read at proof depth for this use. The new input is Theorem 1 of [[research/leads/equilateral_two_scale/unit_templates|the finite-cover account]]. No Lean formalization of this extension is asserted, and the recorded standing of the separate algebraic Lean interface (R0) is not changed by this argument.
Let , let be the real closure of inside , put and , and write . Let be the characters continuous for the usual topology of .
Theorem 2. Every -invariant Borel probability measure on giving measure zero is Haar probability on .
Corollary 3. In a unitary representation of with covariant -rotations, let be rotation fixed and let be the orthogonal projection onto the vectors continuous under translations in the usual topology. Then
Deduction of the corollary. The translation spectral measure of is -invariant. Its restriction to , if nonzero, is a multiple of Haar measure by Theorem 2. The spectral measure of is its restriction to : this is the spectral characterization of continuous vectors, proved by extending continuous positive-definite coefficients from to , applying Bochner's theorem, and using Fourier uniqueness on . Haar coefficients vanish at nonzero , giving the identity.
Field hypotheses for the source lemmas
The field is countable and dense in , and is a dense real-closed subfield of . Thus is compact metrizable. The ordinary frequency map is continuous and injective; its compact exhaustion makes and the inverse parametrization Borel. Multiplication by a nonzero element of preserves . The group is countable abelian and divisible, since every complex root of a unit lies in the algebraically closed field and is a unit. It acts orthogonally on ordinary frequency parameters.
Here are the retained source lemmas, their roles and the field-dependent points in their proofs. They are used with in place of the manuscript's .
- Lemma 2.4, null cosets and real-line events. A positive-mass coset of has finite rotation orbit. Divisibility makes that orbit trivial; one rotation then forces the coset to be . Two independent samples therefore have a difference outside almost surely. For the event that a character is continuous on a real line , two nonparallel lines give an -basis of , so their intersection is contained in . Infinitely many rotated lines make each line event null. These arguments use no algebraicity over .
- Lemma 2.5, vanishing line averages. An invariant mean on defines a positive translation-invariant functional on bounded, boundedly supported functions on . It agrees with Lebesgue integration on restrictions of continuous compactly supported functions. For a wild law , for and . The proof convolves the multiplication representation with using ; the resulting vector is continuous on the real line and hence zero by the preceding null event. Density of permits the Bochner extension to ; countability and amenability provide all the means and Borel spaces used.
- Lemmas 2.6 and 2.7, centers and relative singularity. Lemma 2.6 is solely a Borel, translation- and orthogonally-equivariant location rule for probability measures on . Lemma 2.7 uses it to turn a positive-mass conditional -coset into finitely many equivariant centers, then contradicts compact approximation by conditional phase collisions. Its induction uses the null-coset and line-average lemmas. The only additional field operation in the collision argument is, for with , the decomposition into two units. Real closedness supplies it. Small test parameters are chosen by the invariant line mean, with all finite test counts fixed first, so no rational or algebraic choice of those parameters is required.
- Lemma 3.1, compact tower. This is a countable-group construction on a standard probability space. Invariant Hilbert--Schmidt kernels on a nonergodic relative product produce finite-rank modules; adjoining their bounded bases gives the prescribed compact approximation at a successor. Separability stops the increasing tower at a countable ordinal, with ergodic relative product. No field coordinates enter the proof.
- Lemma 3.2, conditional multiple averages. The relative-product argument, its finite-set van der Corput estimate and its every-Følner conclusion use only a countable divisible abelian group. In particular nonzero power maps have the same invariant vectors as the full action, and translates of Følner sequences remain Følner. These properties hold for .
- Lemma 3.3, radial identities. Equal nonzero moduli in differ by a member of . The polynomial identity in its proof uses for and the exponents ; its circle average uses exponents . Real closedness and the preceding multiple-average lemma provide exactly these inputs.
- Lemma 3.5, addition under a cap. This is a finite manipulation of nonnegative real numbers and a difference inequality, so it holds on without further field assumptions.
The source's Lemma 3.4 is not retained over : a finite number field need not contain the cover rotations. The next section replaces that selection step, including its uniform bounds.
The radial function and the replacement selection
First suppose the wild law is ergodic under . Let be the terminal factor of Lemma 3.1 and its conditional expectation. For the character coordinate put
Conditional independence identifies as the Fourier transform of the relative difference law over . That law is wild by Lemma 2.7. The function is radial, takes values in , and has . With , Lemma 3.3 gives
for , , , and every Følner sequence in . These are the manuscript's equations (3.12) and (3.13).
Suppose . Choose finite with . The set
is syndetic. Otherwise one could translate each set of a Følner sequence to avoid , contradicting the every-sequence average. Choose a finite cover with .
There is a finite such that every choice of one for each has rational span containing and . For transcendental , this is Theorem 1 of the finite-cover account, followed by the algebraic-to-rational coefficient reduction in Propositions 6--8 of the transcendental account. For algebraic , ; take a number field containing and , and use the original Lemma 3.4 and pigeonhole. This uses the number-field argument only where its hypotheses hold.
For each , choose at each a multiplier with , and call the resulting finite set of a selection . There are finitely many selections. Clear the rational denominators of expressions for to obtain a common positive integer and finite such that every selection has an expression
Because its rational span contains both and , every selection also has a positive lower bound for as ranges over the ordinary unit circle. Compactness and the finite number of selections give one common , which may be decreased to be at most one.
For with , the numbers of its selection satisfy and . Taking real parts in the expression for , and adjusting signs, expresses as an integer combination of the with coefficient length at most . Lemma 3.5 gives . Every is the real part of . Hence
Choose a nonnegative continuous test function with positive integral supported in this interval. Positivity of makes its -integral against positive, contradicting Lemma 2.5 for the wild relative difference law. Thus for every . Since , all nonzero Fourier coefficients of vanish. Fourier uniqueness identifies with Haar measure. Finally ergodically decompose an arbitrary wild invariant law. Almost every component is still wild, since is invariant Borel. The ergodic conclusion applies to each component and proves Theorem 2.
Composition with the triangle argument
The proof of the binary transfer uses only a countable dense carrier containing the placed triangle vertices, its dense rotation group, and the correlation identity of Corollary 3. For the equilateral triangles of sides and , these vertices lie in . It therefore yields a weakly avoiding measurable two-coloring from any arbitrary coloring avoiding both sides, for every real . Theorem 4 of the circle account excludes such a measurable coloring when . The reduction through Jelínek et al., Lemma 1.3 and Corollary 1.4, stated on the canonical whole proof sketch, then gives the full triangle conclusion. The graded whole-conclusion review covers this composition, including the template, source-lemma extension, measurable argument and exact conclusion. It supplies no Lean fidelity or catalog-status decision.