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reducedCellularToOrdinaryChainMap

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Chain map embedding the reduced cellular circle model (one integer generator in degree 1) into the ordinary two-cell model (generators in degrees 0 and 1, zero boundaries). Downstream retract lemmas and the algebraic H1 certificate cite it. Constructed by mkHomFromSingle from the inverse degree-1 integer identification, using vanishing differentials.

Claim. There is a chain map from the reduced cellular circle complex (supported by $\mathbb{Z}$ in degree $1$ only) into the ordinary two-cell cellular circle complex (supported by $\mathbb{Z}$ in degrees $0$ and $1$, with all differentials zero).

background

This module is the local workbench for the missing computation $H_1(S^1;\mathbb{Z})\cong\mathbb{Z}$. It stays algebraic: it does not replace Mathlib's TopCat.sphere 1 and does not feed the strict T8 bridge until a real equivalence to singular homology is proved.

The reduced cellular circle model is the single-degree complex with $\mathbb{Z}$ in degree 1 and zero elsewhere. The ordinary cellular circle model places $\mathbb{Z}$ in degrees 0 and 1, nothing higher, and sets every differential to zero. The ordinary degree-1 chain group is identified with $\mathbb{Z}$ by a definitional isomorphism; all its differentials vanish by reflexivity.

The map defined here includes the reduced model into the ordinary one, so that later one can prove the reduced complex is a chain-level retract of the ordinary complex in the degree relevant to circle homology.

proof idea

One-shot construction via HomologicalComplex.mkHomFromSingle. The degree-1 component is the inverse of the ordinary model's degree-1 integer-generator isomorphism. The required commutation-with-differentials side condition is discharged by simp against the theorem that every differential of the ordinary cellular circle model is zero.

why it matters

This inclusion is half of the chain-level retract between the reduced and ordinary cellular models. Downstream, the composite reduced-then-ordinary is the identity on the reduced complex, and the opposite composite is the identity in degree 1 (the degree that carries $H_1$). Both facts feed the structure CellularCircleAlgebraicH1Certificate, which packages: reduced $H_1\cong\mathbb{Z}$, ordinary $H_1\cong\mathbb{Z}$, ordinary collapses to reduced in degree 1, and the reduced model is a retract of the ordinary one.

That certificate closes the finite cellular algebraic core of the circle-$H_1$ computation. The remaining Phase 5 gap is geometric transport from Mathlib singular chains on the circle to this cellular model; nothing here touches T8 or the forcing chain directly.

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