Kummer-class independence for common cover primes #
When a prime divides both cover exponents, the successive norm-degree argument used for coprime
covers loses exactly the common-prime information. This module begins the required replacement
by treating the exceptional prime 2 directly. In the quadratic presentation of the degree-one
trace curve, it proves that the product of the two torus coordinates remains nonsquare.
The odd common-prime classes and the roots-of-unity eigencharacter descent are deliberately not assumed here; they remain the next noncoprime wall.
theorem
BGS.Markoff.splitTraceCoordinateProduct_quadraticPresentation_not_isSquare
{K : Type u_1}
[Field K]
(sigma : K)
(hsigma : sigma ≠ 0)
(hnondegenerate : sigma ≠ 1)
(h2 : 2 ≠ 0)
:
¬IsSquare
((algebraMap (RatFunc K) (AdjoinRoot (adjoinSquarePolynomial (splitTraceRadicand sigma))))
(RatFunc.X * splitTraceRadicand sigma))
The sole two-primary residue class left invisible by the four boundary valuations is nevertheless nontrivial: on the degree-one trace curve, the product of the two torus coordinates is not a square.