IndisputableMonolith.Foundation.PrimitiveRecognitionCalculus.RealMulBoundedContinuity
Module packaging eventual boundedness of raw rational ledgers in the Primitive Recognition Calculus, so multiplication on the completed ordered field stays continuous under PRC-native cost control. Analysts reconstructing reals from ledger data cite the targets and the conditional certificate. The argument is interface-level: named targets plus a certificate that bounded continuity yields mul closure and congruence.
claimFor a raw rational ledger in the Primitive Recognition Calculus, eventual PRC-native boundedness is formalized so that $J$-cost distance controls multiplication: if sequences are eventually bounded in the PRC sense, then mul on the completed ordered field is continuous, and the corresponding closure and congruence targets follow from a bounded-continuity certificate.
background
Primitive Recognition Calculus builds analysis from ledger data rather than from a pre-given continuum. The parent layer RealCompleteOrderedField supplies the completed ordered field over rationals; this module adds the boundedness side of multiplication continuity.
Eventual boundedness means a raw rational sequence (or Cauchy data) is eventually trapped in a PRC-controlled bound, not merely classically bounded. The $J$-cost distance (from the Recognition Composition Law and T5 uniqueness of $J(x)=(x+x^{-1})/2-1$) is the native metric that must remain continuous under multiplication.
Sibling targets name the pieces: raw eventual boundedness, Cauchy-sequence eventual boundedness, $J$-cost mul-bounded-continuity, and the derived mul-closure and mul-congruence obligations once bounded continuity is assumed.
proof idea
Interface and certificate module rather than a single closed theorem. It declares targets for raw and Cauchy eventual boundedness and for $J$-cost distance mul-bounded continuity, then packages a conditional certificate: from bounded continuity one obtains the real-mul closure and congruence targets. Downstream modules import the certificate and discharge or refine the targets; no standalone end-to-end proof lives here alone.
why it matters in Recognition Science
Multiplication continuity on the PRC real line is required before Kernel-level recognition calculus can treat products of ledger-derived quantities as continuous operations. The module is imported by PrimitiveRecognitionCalculus.Kernel and by RealBoundednessModulus, which refine modulus-of-boundedness control.
In the broader forcing chain, continuous field operations on the completed ledger support later geometric and physical layers (octave structure, dimension forcing) that assume a well-behaved real arithmetic. The conditional certificate keeps the gap explicit: mul continuity is not smuggled in as a classical axiom but tied to PRC-native eventual bounds.
scope and limits
- Does not prove classical Heine-Cantor continuity on arbitrary compact sets without PRC bounds.
- Does not discharge the bounded-continuity hypothesis; it only packages a conditional certificate.
- Does not construct the completed ordered field; that lives in RealCompleteOrderedField.
- Does not address division, inversion at zero, or full field-automorphism questions.
- Does not by itself fix physical constants or the T0-T8 forcing chain.
used by (2)
depends on (1)
declarations in this module (7)
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def
PRCRawEventuallyBounded -
def
PRCCauchySeqEventuallyBoundedTarget -
def
PRCJCostDistanceMulBoundedContinuityTarget -
theorem
PRCRealMulClosureTarget_of_bounded_continuity -
theorem
PRCRealMulCongruenceTarget_of_bounded_continuity -
structure
PRCRealMulBoundedContinuityConditionalCertificate -
theorem
prc_real_mul_bounded_continuity_conditional_certificate