Functional Equivalence of Twin-Width and Mixed Minor Number

Édouard Bonnet @EdouardBonnet

draft·created 2026-07-22·/home/jan/git/lax-submissions-origin@6f98c89/twin-width-mixed-minor-number·Lean v4.30.0 · mathlib c5ea00351c28

Draft — mutable and not usable as a dependency; its citation marks the draft state.

Abstract

This submission gives a full Lean proof that finite-graph twin-width and mixed minor number are functionally equivalent: each parameter is bounded by a numerical function of the other.

The concept surface has two review units. The first gives the complete definition of mixed minor number — interval divisions, mixed matrix cells, mixed minors, and vertex-ordered adjacency matrices — phrased with plain structures and Prop-valued predicates, and with the parameter an infimum of an explicit set of naturals. The second states the functional equivalence with the twin-width parameter of submission Lax1, applied directly to the two parameters through a shared uniform signature. The proof runs through the Marcus–Tardos theorem, the matrix grid-minor theorem, and the graph twin-decomposition bridge; both submitted parameters are proved pointwise equal to their source counterparts, via the black-is-complete / red-is-non-homogeneous invariant for contraction sequences and a pointwise division-and-cell translation for mixed minors.

Ported from the original formalization by Édouard Bonnet (github.com/EdouardBonnet/leaning, twin-width, MIT-licensed).

Concepts

Proofs

Lax2Proofs.Main.twin_width_functionally_equivalent_mixed_minor_numberproven

proves Lax2.FunctionalEquivalence.twin_width_functionally_equivalent_mixed_minor_number assuming nothing

Self-contained proof that the submitted twin-width parameter (from submission Lax1) and the submitted mixed minor number are functionally equivalent.

Proof strategy

The submitted partition-based twin-width and the propositional mixed minor number are proved pointwise equal to their source counterparts — through the black-is-complete / red-is-non-homogeneous invariant for contraction sequences and a pointwise division-and-cell translation for mixed minors — and the source equivalence theorem (Marcus–Tardos, the matrix grid-minor theorem, and the twin-decomposition bridge) transports directly.

Attribution

Ported from Édouard Bonnet's formalization of Bonnet–Kim–Thomassé–Watrigant, Twin-width I: Tractable FO Model Checking (J. ACM 2022).

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Cite this

@misc{Lax2,
  author = {Édouard Bonnet},
  title = {Functional Equivalence of Twin-Width and Mixed Minor Number},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {Lax Archive, Lax2},
  note = {draft},
}

References

@article{BonnetKimThomasseWatrigant2022,
  author  = {Bonnet, {\'E}douard and Kim, Eun Jung and Thomass{\'e}, St{\'e}phan and Watrigant, R{\'e}mi},
  title   = {Twin-width I: Tractable FO Model Checking},
  journal = {Journal of the ACM},
  volume  = {69},
  number  = {1},
  pages   = {3:1--3:46},
  year    = {2022},
  doi     = {10.1145/3486655}
}
@article{MarcusTardos2004,
  author  = {Marcus, Adam and Tardos, G{\'a}bor},
  title   = {Excluded permutation matrices and the {S}tanley-{W}ilf conjecture},
  journal = {Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A},
  volume  = {107},
  number  = {1},
  pages   = {153--160},
  year    = {2004},
  doi     = {10.1016/j.jcta.2004.04.002}
}