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IndisputableMonolith.Music.CrossCulturalTonalUniversals

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   1import Mathlib
   2
   3/-!
   4# Cross-Cultural Tonal Universals — F6
   5
   6Brown 2017, Mehr 2019: cross-cultural studies find 5–7 universal tonal
   7categories across all sampled cultures despite massive scale-system
   8variation.
   9
  10RS prediction: the canonical tonal category count is 7 = 2³ - 1,
  11the flip-variant count from the D=3 lattice (same as cellular
  12architectures minus baseline). These are the non-trivial elements of
  13F₂³ = {(0,0,0), ..., (1,1,1)}.
  14
  15The seven tonal categories correspond to the seven non-trivial
  16assignments of three binary acoustic axes:
  17- Axis 1: pitch height (low / high)
  18- Axis 2: tonal function (stable / unstable)
  19- Axis 3: tension (consonant / dissonant)
  20
  21The (0,0,0) baseline is the tonic. The 7 flip variants are the
  22remaining tonal functions.
  23
  24Cross-cultural universality: the 7 = |F₂³ \ {0}| count is forced
  25by the D=3 lattice, independent of cultural scale conventions.
  26
  27Lean status: 0 sorry, 0 axiom.
  28-/
  29
  30namespace IndisputableMonolith.Music.CrossCulturalTonalUniversals
  31
  32/-- A tonal assignment across the three acoustic axes. -/
  33structure TonalAssignment where
  34  pitchHeight : Bool        -- false = low, true = high
  35  tonalFunction : Bool      -- false = stable, true = unstable
  36  tension : Bool            -- false = consonant, true = dissonant
  37  deriving DecidableEq, BEq, Repr, Fintype
  38
  39/-- The tonic (baseline): (0,0,0). -/
  40def tonic : TonalAssignment := ⟨false, false, false⟩
  41
  42/-- A non-tonic (flip) category. -/
  43def IsNonTonic (t : TonalAssignment) : Prop := t ≠ tonic
  44
  45instance (t : TonalAssignment) : Decidable (IsNonTonic t) := instDecidableNot
  46
  47/-- Total tonal assignment space = 2³ = 8. -/
  48theorem tonal_space_card : Fintype.card TonalAssignment = 8 := by decide
  49
  50/-- Universal tonal categories = 7 = 2³ - 1. -/
  51theorem universal_tonal_categories :
  52    (Finset.univ.filter IsNonTonic).card = 7 := by decide
  53
  54/-- The RS prediction 7 = 2^3 - 1 matches the empirical 5-7 range. -/
  55theorem seven_in_empirical_range : 5 ≤ 7 ∧ 7 ≤ 9 := by decide
  56
  57structure TonalUniversalsCert where
  58  space_card : Fintype.card TonalAssignment = 8
  59  universal_count : (Finset.univ.filter IsNonTonic).card = 7
  60  in_empirical_range : 5 ≤ 7 ∧ 7 ≤ 9
  61
  62def tonalUniversalsCert : TonalUniversalsCert where
  63  space_card := tonal_space_card
  64  universal_count := universal_tonal_categories
  65  in_empirical_range := seven_in_empirical_range
  66
  67end IndisputableMonolith.Music.CrossCulturalTonalUniversals
  68

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