Regrouping skipped-branch sets after collapse #
For fixed r and s, the map W ↦ liftWPrime r s W embeds the contracted
non-root-branch powerset into the original one. Consequently the induction
sum can be reindexed without a fibre-cardinality loss.
Injectivity #
Mapping a finite set along the retained-vertex embedding is injective.
On contracted non-root branch sets, W ↦ W' is injective. In the
s = 1 case the inserted vertex r can be erased because it is absent from
both lifted contracted sets.
Set-theoretic injectivity on the contracted non-root powerset.
Landing in the original powerset #
A contracted non-root branch subset maps to an original non-root branch subset.
The image of the contracted powerset is contained in the original powerset.
Exact reindexing and the sum upper bound #
Exact reindexing onto the image; injectivity means there is no fibre multiplicity.
Generic no-fibre-loss regrouping bound. Only the target summands need to be nonnegative in order to enlarge the image to the full original powerset; the source summands may be arbitrary.