refactor: drop the non-abelian hypothesis from Schreier's conjecture - #508
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Schreier's conjecture is usually stated for non-abelian simple groups, but the hypothesis is not needed for the form the eval problem uses. A finite abelian simple group is `ZMod p`, so its inner automorphisms are trivial and `Out(S) ≅ Aut(S) ≅ (ZMod p)ˣ` is cyclic, hence solvable. Reported by Boris Alexeev, who verified the abelian case in Lean: https://leanprover.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/583339-AI-authored-projects/topic/Formalized.20statement.20of.20CFSG.3F/near/614674159 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SpyUgHsbCsg35UDUYUxdiY
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This PR drops the
(hS : ∃ a b : S, ¬ Commute a b)hypothesis from theschreier_conjectureeval problem, and records in the module docstring and the manifest notes why it is not needed. Schreier's conjecture is usually stated for non-abelian simple groups, but the form used here holds for every finite simple group: a finite abelian simple group isZMod p, so its inner automorphisms are trivial andOut(S) ≅ Aut(S) ≅ (ZMod p)ˣis cyclic, hence solvable.Reported by Boris Alexeev, who had already verified the abelian case in Lean, in "Formalized statement of CFSG?" https://leanprover.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/583339-AI-authored-projects/topic/Formalized.20statement.20of.20CFSG.3F/near/614674159
Confirmed independently against Mathlib before making the change, since dropping a hypothesis strengthens the statement and a false statement would make the problem unsolvable:
schreier_conjectureis currently unsolved, so no accepted submission is invalidated.generated/is left untouched, since CI regenerates it from source.🤖 Prepared with Claude Code