Degree and the divisor order #
This file records the monotonicity of the formal Weil-divisor degree maps with respect to the
coefficientwise order. If D ≤ E, then the effective difference E - D has nonnegative
weighted degree whenever the weights are nonnegative, so weightedDegree w D ≤ weightedDegree w E.
With positive weights this becomes strict unless D = E, and equality of degrees under a
coefficientwise inequality forces equality of divisors.
These are Layer A divisor-and-degree facts for the Jacobian challenge roadmap
(TauCetiRoadmap/JacobianChallenge/README.md): they are the order-theoretic counterpart of the
existing effective-divisor positivity API and support later complete-linear-system and Abel-map
bookkeeping. No external mathematics is vendored; the proofs reuse Tau Ceti's
WeilDivisor.Order API and Mathlib's ordered-additive-group lemmas.
Weighted degree #
With nonnegative weights on the support of the difference, a coefficientwise increase does not decrease weighted degree.
With nonnegative weights, weighted degree is monotone for the coefficientwise divisor order.
Bundled monotonicity of weighted degree for nonnegative weights.
With positive weights on the support of the difference, a proper coefficientwise increase strictly increases weighted degree.
With everywhere-positive weights, a proper coefficientwise increase strictly increases weighted degree.
With everywhere-positive weights, strict coefficientwise inequality strictly increases weighted degree.
With positive weights on the support of the difference, equality of weighted degrees under a coefficientwise inequality forces equality of divisors.
With everywhere-positive weights, equality of weighted degrees under a coefficientwise inequality forces equality of divisors.
An effective divisor of weighted degree one is a point divisor: with positive weights on
its support, weightedDegree w D = 1 forces D = [x] at a single point x of weight one.
For positive weights, weighted degree is strictly monotone for the coefficientwise divisor order.
Unweighted degree #
The unweighted degree is monotone for the coefficientwise divisor order.
Bundled monotonicity of unweighted degree.
A proper coefficientwise increase strictly increases unweighted degree.
Strict coefficientwise inequality strictly increases unweighted degree.
Equality of unweighted degrees under a coefficientwise inequality forces equality of divisors.
The unweighted degree is strictly monotone for the coefficientwise divisor order.
Inclusion–exclusion at the level of degrees #
The lattice-ordered-group inclusion–exclusion identity for the weighted degree:
w-deg (D ⊓ E) + w-deg (D ⊔ E) = w-deg D + w-deg E.
If a fixed-degree effective divisor is coefficientwise below another, its degree index is also bounded above.