Capturing properties of planar diagrams in Lean proof assistant software

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Main Authors: Litterick, Alastair, Vernitski, Alexei, Woods, Billy
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Published: 2025
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author Litterick, Alastair
Vernitski, Alexei
Woods, Billy
author_facet Litterick, Alastair
Vernitski, Alexei
Woods, Billy
contents Automated proof assistants are a technology pre-empting mistakes in mathematics. In our practice we have seen that reasoning about planar diagrams is difficult to both humans and computers. One example that has led to wrong statements in publications is that an orientation-preserving mapping is not always defined by how it acts on triples of elements. In this paper we formalise orientation-preserving mappings in proof assistant software Lean and report on our take-aways.
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spellingShingle Capturing properties of planar diagrams in Lean proof assistant software
Litterick, Alastair
Vernitski, Alexei
Woods, Billy
Combinatorics
Logic in Computer Science
Group Theory
Automated proof assistants are a technology pre-empting mistakes in mathematics. In our practice we have seen that reasoning about planar diagrams is difficult to both humans and computers. One example that has led to wrong statements in publications is that an orientation-preserving mapping is not always defined by how it acts on triples of elements. In this paper we formalise orientation-preserving mappings in proof assistant software Lean and report on our take-aways.
title Capturing properties of planar diagrams in Lean proof assistant software
topic Combinatorics
Logic in Computer Science
Group Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.13304