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Let (A,m) be an excellent normal local domain of dimension d >= 2, and let I be an m-primary ideal. We define the reduced comparison map phi_n^r : Sym_A^n(I)/r Sym_A^n(I) -> I^n_bar/r I^n_bar for a nonzero conductor element r in m intersect c(I), and prove: (1) the exact index formula lambda(ker phi_n^r) - lambda(coker phi_n^r) = lambda(E_n) relating the comparison map to the equation defect; (2) the exact decomposition nu_r(n) = d_r(n) + kappa_r(n) - tau_r(n) of the reduced normalization defect, where tau_r(n) is identified as an explicit intersection defect; (3) the asymptotic R_1 criterion deg nu_r(n) <= d-2 iff R(I) is R_1; and (4) a fiber-corrected bridge theorem: if the fiber-cone equation ideal J_fib vanishes, then lambda(E_n) = O(n^{d-2}). This is an AI-assisted formalization project: the full theorem package has been formalized in Lean 4 (Mathlib) through a 10-phase, 47-file development using the ReesDefects package.

Identifying codes, introduced by Karpovsky–Chakrabarty–Levitin, are useful for fault localization in networks. In the binary Hamming space (hypercube) Q_n, let M_r(n) denote the minimum size of an r-identifying code. A natural open question asks: for fixed radius r, is M_r(n) monotonically non-decreasing in the dimension n? While monotonicity is known to hold for r=1 (Moncel), the case r>1 remained open. We provide two fully explicit counterexamples: (1) The classical r=2 counterexample M_2(3)=7 > 6=M_2(4), where we construct a 6-element code and prove no 5-element code exists, forming a rigorous certificate; (2) A stronger result showing that even under the constraint r > n/2, monotonicity can fail: M_3(4)=15 while M_3(5) ≤ 10, hence M_3(5) < M_3(4). These phenomena demonstrate that optimal identifying code sizes can exhibit sudden drops at boundary regimes (e.g., n = r+1).

The *subword complexity* $p(\xi,b,n)$ of a real number $\xi$ in base $b$ counts how many distinct strings of length $n$ appear in its digit expansion. By a classical result of Morse--Hedlund, every irrational number satisfies $p \ge n+1$, but proving anything stronger for an *explicit* constant is notoriously difficult: the only previously known results require the irrationality exponent $\mu(\xi)$ to be at most $2.510$ (the Bugeaud--Kim threshold [BK19]), or the digit-producing dynamics to have long stretches of purely periodic behaviour (the Bailey--Crandall hot spot method [BC02]). We introduce an *epoch-expansion* technique that bypasses both barriers, and use it to prove that a broad family of lacunary sums