Multiplicity ledgers for the collapse induction #
This module records the three elementary mass facts used in the final assembly of Proposition 5.9: a branching subtree carries at least four copies, the original mass splits into its inside and outside parts, and a skipped branch set in the contracted tree is paid for by the multiplicity away from the new marker leaf.
A tree whose root branches carries at least four copies: it has at least two leaves and every leaf multiplicity is at least two.
The inside mass of a selected branch is at least four.
Original mass is the restricted mass plus the unchanged outside mass.
The sum of contracted multiplicities away from the marker is exactly the original outside mass.
Every skipped set in the contracted tree satisfies the off-marker cardinality hypothesis used in the factorial comparison (5.47).