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CRComposition

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CRComposition enumerates the five canonical cosmic ray species in Recognition Science spectrum models. Astrophysicists verifying phi-ladder predictions for the knee and ankle would cite this enumeration to confirm the composition count equals configDim D = 5. The declaration is an inductive type whose Fintype instance follows directly from the five constructors and the deriving clause.

claimThe set of cosmic ray composition categories consists of five elements: protons, helium nuclei, the CNO group, iron nuclei, and ultra-heavy nuclei.

background

The module models the cosmic ray energy spectrum as a power law E^{-γ} with observed index near 2.7-3.0 and breaks at the knee (~3×10^{15} eV) and ankle (~3×10^{18} eV). Recognition Science predicts these breaks occur at phi-rung energies and that the spectral index satisfies γ ≈ 1 + φ ≈ 2.618, lying inside the interval (2.61, 2.63). Five composition categories are introduced to match the configuration dimension D = 5.

proof idea

The declaration is an inductive definition with five constructors. The deriving clause supplies the DecidableEq, Repr, BEq, and Fintype instances automatically.

why it matters in Recognition Science

This definition supplies the finite type required by CosmicRayCert, which asserts that the cardinality equals five and that the spectral index lies in (2.61, 2.63). It implements the module claim that the five categories realize configDim D = 5, closing the interface for downstream certification theorems on the phi-ladder cosmic ray spectrum.

scope and limits

formal statement (Lean)

  24inductive CRComposition where
  25  | protons | helium | CNO | iron | ultraHeavy
  26  deriving DecidableEq, Repr, BEq, Fintype
  27

used by (2)

From the project-wide theorem graph. These declarations reference this one in their body.