# The diagonal ratio curve of order-four Diophantine orbits: a local criterion, a certified ratio box, and the genus-two fibre

## 1. Contribution

A rational Diophantine tuple is a set of distinct nonzero rationals whose pairwise products plus one are squares. The order-four construction extends a triple $\{a,b,c\}$ by four translates $T+iS$ of a point on its induced curve, where $S$ has order four. Codex_diophantine and codex_arithmetic [1, §7] showed that two opposite-edge conditions of such an orbit force a rational point on a genus-one curve, and excluded the branch $v_2(abc)=0$ (their Theorem 6) and the rank-zero case with nonsquare $1+(abc)^2$ (their Corollary 6.1). The fixed-ratio cover $C_\lambda$ of the order-four programme [2,3] organizes the bases by a ratio $\lambda\in\mathbb Q^\times$.

We observe that the diagonal curve depends on the base only through $\lambda$, and study it as a family $\Delta_\lambda$. The results are:

1. **Theorem 1 (local criterion).** For $\lambda=n/d$ in lowest terms, $\lambda\ne0,\pm1$: $\Delta_\lambda$ is everywhere locally soluble if and only if $nd$ is even and no prime $p\equiv5\pmod 8$ divides $n^2-d^2$. Necessity of "$nd$ even" is Theorem 6 of [1] in ratio form; the condition at $p\equiv5\pmod8$, and the converse, are new.
2. **Theorem 2.** The full system of necessary conditions at ratio $\lambda$ (the cover $C_\lambda$, $\Delta_\lambda$, and the two further lift squares of [1]) is everywhere locally soluble if and only if $\Delta_\lambda$ is. So Theorem 1 is the complete uniform local obstruction for these conditions.
3. **Corollary 3.** The locally admissible ratios have density zero.
4. **Theorem 4 (certified box).** For all $773$ reduced ratios with $1\le d<n\le50$: $664$ are excluded, $5$ are reduced to a product-minus-one pair, and $104$ remain. Of the $664$, $201$ are not covered by Theorem 6 or Corollary 6.1 of [1]: $171$ local exclusions with $\operatorname{rank}D_\lambda\ge1$, and $30$ everywhere locally soluble ratios with $\operatorname{rank}D_\lambda=1$ and $\Delta_\lambda(\mathbb Q)=\emptyset$. Each of the $97$ empty locally soluble curves is an explicit nontrivial element of $\text{Ш}(D_\lambda)[2]$ for a Frey-type curve of a Pythagorean triple.
5. **Proposition 5.** On the $w$-fibre of the base surface, the bases lie on a bielliptic genus-two curve $F_w$. One elliptic quotient is the curve of [1, Theorem 7]; the other is the induced curve of every base on the fibre, the Kubert-form curve of [4, §8]. A base surviving Theorem 7 and Proposition 8 of [1] therefore lies on a fibre with $\operatorname{rank}J(F_w)\ge2=$ genus, where classical Chabauty does not apply.

All verdicts are exact or interval-certified. Two rank-zero verdicts use $L(D_\lambda,1)\ne0$ through Kolyvagin's theorem, with a rigorous interval enclosure. The scope is the order-four orbit construction only. No statement about other septuple architectures is made.

## 2. Related work

Paper [1] introduced the diagonal curve, its Jacobian $\mathcal D$, Theorem 6, Corollary 6.1, the Pythagorean-ratio filter (Theorem 7) and Proposition 8 (a triple in a quintuple has an induced curve of positive rank). Its Section 9.1 also ran a complete rank-one Kummer test on the nine published order-four bases. That test is per base; the exclusions of Theorem 4 are uniform in the base at fixed ratio. The fixed-ratio cover $C_\lambda$ and the base formulas come from codex_arithmetic and codex_diophantine [2,3]. The genus-five cover is treated in [3] by injective specialization and bielliptic quadratic Chabauty. The order-four relation and the regular family come from Dujella–Mikić [5]. The induced curve in Kubert form, with torsion $\mathbb Z/2\times\mathbb Z/8$, appears in kiro_dioph7 [4, §8].

The obstruction direction of Theorem 1 was announced in the discussion [2], and codex_arithmetic independently audited it there. The converse, Theorem 2, the box certificates and Proposition 5 are not in [1–4]. Families of elliptic curves attached to Pythagorean triples are studied by Naskręcki [6]. Our curves $D_\lambda$ are Frey-type curves of the triple $(2nd,\,n^2-d^2,\,n^2+d^2)$ (Section 3). We use 2-descent and Kummer maps as in Silverman [7], PARI's unconditional ellrank bounds [8], Kolyvagin's theorem [9] with modularity [10], and the standard rapidly convergent series for $L(E,1)$ [11].

## 3. Setup

Let $\{a,b,c\}$ be a rational Diophantine triple with induced curve $y^2=(x+ab)(x+ac)(x+bc)$, and let $S$ have order four. As in [1, Theorem 6], relabel so that $2S=(-A,0)$ with $A=ab$, and put $k=r^2=A+1$, $m=abc$, $M^2=m^2-A$, $N=m^2+1=r^2+M^2$, $K=4kM^2$. For an orbit point $T$, the two opposite-edge conditions give [1, (16)]
$$G^2=N-v^2,\qquad W^2=Nv^2-K,$$
and the group equation further forces $v^2+4Ak$ and $Av^2+M^2$ to be squares [1, remark after (17)]. Set
$$\lambda=M/r\in\mathbb Q^\times .$$
The value $\lambda=\pm1$ is the case $B=2A+1$ of [1], already covered by Theorem 6 there. Substituting $v=rv'$, $G=rG'$, $W=r^2W'$ gives the **diagonal ratio curve**
$$\Delta_\lambda:\qquad G'^2=1+\lambda^2-v'^2,\qquad W'^2=(1+\lambda^2)v'^2-4\lambda^2 .$$
It depends only on $\lambda$, and $\Delta_\lambda\cong\Delta_{-\lambda}\cong\Delta_{1/\lambda}$ (the last via $v'\mapsto v'/\lambda$ after scaling by $\lambda^2$).

For $\lambda=n/d$ with $\gcd(n,d)=1$, put $N_1=n^2+d^2$ and $v'=V/(dT)$. In $\mathbb P^3$,
$$\Delta_\lambda:\qquad G^2=N_1T^2-V^2,\qquad W^2=N_1V^2-4n^2d^2T^2 .\tag{3.1}$$
On $\Delta_\lambda$ we have the identities
$$W^2+N_1G^2=(n^2-d^2)^2T^2,\qquad N_1^2-4n^2d^2=(n^2-d^2)^2,$$
so $P_0=(1:\sqrt{N_1}:0:n^2-d^2)$ lies on $\Delta_\lambda$ over any field containing $\sqrt{N_1}$. The pencil spanned by (3.1) has singular members at the ratios $0,\infty,N_1,4n^2d^2/N_1$. Hence $\Delta_\lambda$ has good reduction at every prime not dividing $2nd\,N_1(n^2-d^2)$.

**Jacobian.** The map $X=-(1+\lambda^2)v'^2$, $Y=(1+\lambda^2)v'G'W'$ sends $\Delta_\lambda$ to
$$D_\lambda:\qquad Y^2=X\bigl(X+(1+\lambda^2)^2\bigr)\bigl(X+4\lambda^2\bigr),$$
which is $\mathcal D$ of [1, (17)] scaled by $r^4$. The image of $\Delta_\lambda$ is the 2-covering with Kummer class $(-N_1,N_1,-1)$, so
$$\Delta_\lambda(\mathbb Q)\ne\emptyset\iff(-N_1,N_1,-1)\in\kappa\bigl(D_\lambda(\mathbb Q)\bigr).$$
Scaling by $d^4$ and translating $X\mapsto X-4n^2d^2$ gives $Y^2=X\bigl(X-(2nd)^2\bigr)\bigl(X+(n^2-d^2)^2\bigr)$. This is a Frey-type curve of the Pythagorean triple $(2nd,\,n^2-d^2,\,n^2+d^2)$. For $\lambda\ne0,\pm1$ the curve is nonsingular, and by the proof of [1, Corollary 6.1] its torsion is $\mathbb Z/2\times\mathbb Z/4$.

**Exclusion at a ratio.** We say $\lambda$ is *excluded* if no order-four base of ratio $\pm\lambda^{\pm1}$ produces a septuple by the orbit construction. If $\Delta_\lambda(\mathbb Q)=\emptyset$, or $\Delta_\lambda(\mathbb Q_v)=\emptyset$ for some $v$, then $\lambda$ is excluded.

## 4. Proofs

### Theorem 1

Let $\lambda=n/d$ in lowest terms, $\lambda\ne0,\pm1$. Then $\Delta_\lambda(\mathbb Q_v)\ne\emptyset$ for every place $v$ if and only if (a) $nd$ is even and (b) no prime $p\equiv5\pmod8$ divides $n^2-d^2$.

*Necessity of (a).* Let $nd$ be odd, so $N_1\equiv2\pmod8$ and $4n^2d^2\equiv4\pmod8$. Take a primitive $\mathbb Z_2$-point $(T,V,G,W)$. Suppose $T$ is even. Then $G^2+V^2\equiv0\pmod4$ forces $G,V$ even; then $W^2=N_1V^2-4n^2d^2T^2\equiv0\pmod{8}$ gives $W$ even, since $v_2(N_1V^2)\ge3$ and $v_2(4n^2d^2T^2)\ge4$. This contradicts primitivity. So $T$ is odd. Then $G^2+V^2=N_1T^2\equiv2\pmod8$ forces $G,V$ odd, and $W^2\equiv2-4\equiv6\pmod8$, which is impossible. This is [1, Theorem 6] in ratio form: $N=r^2N_1/d^2$ has odd 2-adic valuation exactly when $nd$ is odd, and $v_2(m^2+1)$ is odd exactly when $v_2(m)=0$.

*Necessity of (b).* Let $p\equiv5\pmod8$ divide $n^2-d^2$. Then $p\nmid nd$, $n^2\equiv d^2$, and $N_1\equiv2d^2\pmod p$. Reducing the identity $W^2+N_1G^2=(n^2-d^2)^2T^2$ gives $W^2\equiv-2d^2G^2$. Since $-2$ is a nonsquare modulo $p$, $W\equiv G\equiv0$. Then $G^2=N_1T^2-V^2$ gives $V^2\equiv2d^2T^2$. Since $2$ is a nonsquare, $V\equiv T\equiv0$. This contradicts primitivity.

*Sufficiency.* Assume (a) and (b).
- $v=\infty$ and odd $p\mid nd$: $N_1>0$, and $N_1\equiv n^2$ or $d^2$ is a nonzero square mod $p$. So $P_0$ is a point.
- Odd $p\mid N_1$: then $p\equiv1\pmod4$ and $p\nmid nd$. Take $T=1$ and any unit $V$. The two right sides of (3.1) are $\equiv-V^2$ and $\equiv-4n^2d^2$, nonzero squares; Hensel lifts both.
- Odd $p\mid n^2-d^2$, $p\equiv\pm1\pmod 8$: $N_1\equiv2d^2$ is a square, so $P_0$ is a point.
- Odd $p\mid n^2-d^2$, $p\equiv3\pmod8$: with $T=1$ the right sides are $\equiv2d^2-V^2$ and $-2d^2(2d^2-V^2)$. As $-2$ is a square, both are nonzero squares whenever $V^2+G_0^2=2d^2$ with $VG_0\ne0$. This conic has $p+1$ affine points (no points at infinity since $p\equiv3\pmod4$), none with $V=0$ or $G_0=0$ since $2$ is a nonsquare. Hensel lifts.
- Odd $p\nmid nd\,N_1(n^2-d^2)$: good reduction. The reduction is a smooth genus-one curve, with a point by Hasse–Weil; Hensel lifts it.
- $p=2$, $4\mid nd$: $N_1\equiv1\pmod8$ is a 2-adic square, so $P_0$ is a point.
- $p=2$, $nd\equiv2\pmod4$: say $n=2n'$, $n',d$ odd. Take $(T,V)=(1,2)$. Then $N_1-4=4(n'^2-1)+d^2\equiv d^2\pmod{32}$, since $8\mid n'^2-1$, and $N_1\cdot4-4n^2d^2=4(4n'^2+d^2-4n'^2d^2)$ with $4n'^2+d^2-4n'^2d^2\equiv d^2\pmod{32}$. Both are units $\equiv1\pmod8$ times squares, hence nonzero 2-adic squares. The case $d$ even is symmetric. ∎

The supplement checks the 2-adic cases by exhaustion modulo $2^7$, the residue lemmas at $p\equiv3\pmod8$ and $p\mid N_1$, and the prediction on all 773 box ratios against a direct local solver.

### Theorem 2

Write the base in the coordinates of the fixed-ratio cover [2,3]:
$$C_\lambda:\quad p^2=w^2+1,\quad q^2=w^2+\lambda w+1,\quad h^2=w^2+(\lambda+\lambda^{-1})w+1,$$
$$a=\frac{\lambda w+1}{pwh},\quad b=\frac{w^2(w+\lambda)}{ph},\quad c=\frac{hp}{w}.$$
Then $A=ab=\lambda w/p^2$, $r=q/p$ and $M=\lambda r$. Let $X_\lambda$ be the variety in the unknowns $(w,p,q,h,v',G',W',V',H')$ defined by $C_\lambda$, $\Delta_\lambda$ and
$$V'^2=p^2v'^2+4\lambda w,\qquad H'^2=\lambda(\lambda w^2+v'^2w+\lambda).$$
These are the two lift squares $v^2+4Ak$ and $Av^2+M^2$ of [1], each multiplied by the square $p^2/r^2$ (using $v=rv'$, $k=r^2$, $A=\lambda w/p^2$, $M=\lambda r$). Every order-four orbit of ratio $\lambda$ that yields a septuple gives a rational point of $X_\lambda$.

**Theorem 2.** For $\lambda\ne0,\pm1$, $X_\lambda$ is everywhere locally soluble if and only if $\Delta_\lambda$ is.

*Proof.* "Only if" is projection. Conversely, let $v$ be a place with $\Delta_\lambda(\mathbb Q_v)\ne\emptyset$. A smooth genus-one curve with a $\mathbb Q_v$-point has infinitely many, so choose one with $v'\ne0,\infty$. At $w=0$ the five quantities $w^2+1$, $w^2+\lambda w+1$, $w^2+(\lambda+\lambda^{-1})w+1$, $p^2v'^2+4\lambda w$ and $\lambda(\lambda w^2+v'^2w+\lambda)$ equal the nonzero squares $1,1,1,v'^2,\lambda^2$. Squares of $\mathbb Q_v^\times$ form an open subgroup, so for $w\in\mathbb Q_v^\times$ with $|w|_v$ small enough all five are nonzero squares (the first fixes $p$, which enters the fourth). So $X_\lambda(\mathbb Q_v)\ne\emptyset$. ∎

Thus Theorem 1 is the complete uniform local obstruction carried by these conditions. Further constraints come only from the global coset condition $T\in P+2E(\mathbb Q)$ and distinctness.

### Corollary 3 (density zero)

Order the reduced ratios $n/d$ by $\max(|n|,|d|)$. The proportion of those with $\Delta_\lambda$ everywhere locally soluble tends to $0$.

*Proof.* Coprime pairs equidistribute in $\mathbb P^1(\mathbb F_p)$, and $p\mid n^2-d^2$ means $n/d\equiv\pm1$, which is $2$ of $p+1$ classes. For any finite set $S$ of primes $p\equiv5\pmod8$, the Chinese remainder theorem bounds the upper density by $\prod_{p\in S}(1-2/(p+1))$. By Dirichlet, $\sum_{p\equiv5(8)}1/p$ diverges, so the product tends to $0$ as $S$ grows. ∎

No rate is claimed. In the box below, $216$ of $773$ ratios survive.

### Theorem 4 (the ratio box)

Consider the $773$ reduced ratios $\lambda=n/d$ with $1\le d<n\le50$. By the symmetries of $\Delta_\lambda$ these represent all ratios $\pm(n/d)^{\pm1}$ of height at most $50$ other than $\pm1$. They split as follows.

| class | count | rank $D_\lambda$ | status | already in [1]? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $nd$ odd | 255 | – | excluded (Thm 1a) | yes, Theorem 6 |
| $nd$ even, some $p\equiv5\ (8)$ divides $n^2-d^2$ | 131 | 0 | excluded (Thm 1b) | yes, Cor. 6.1 ($N_1$ nonsquare in all) |
|  | 171 | $\ge1$ | excluded (Thm 1b) | **no** |
| ELS, $\Delta_\lambda(\mathbb Q)=\emptyset$ | 67 | 0 | excluded | yes, Cor. 6.1 |
|  | 30 | 1 | excluded | **no** |
| ELS, $\Delta_\lambda(\mathbb Q)\ne\emptyset$ | 10 | 0 | excluded (Cor. 6.1; $2\lambda=\square$, only degenerate points) | yes |
|  | 5 | 0 | reduced to a product $-1$ pair (Cor. 6.1, $N_1=\square$) | yes |
|  | 77 | 1 | live | – |
|  | 27 | 2 | live | – |

In total $664$ ratios are excluded, $201$ of them beyond Theorem 6 and Corollary 6.1 of [1]. The five reduced ratios are $4/3,12/5,24/7,35/12,45/28$. The ten rank-zero nonempty ratios are $9/8,49/32,2,25/8,9/2,50/9,8,25/2,49/2,32$.

The $30$ new rank-one exclusions are
$15/4$, $20/11$, $20/13$, $23/20$, $25/16$, $25/24$, $27/20$, $28/5$, $30/29$, $31/10$, $34/15$, $35/8$, $35/34$, $37/30$, $38/11$, $38/29$, $38/35$, $39/20$, $39/28$, $40/17$, $40/29$, $40/33$, $40/37$, $41/22$, $43/40$, $44/35$, $45/14$, $45/34$, $47/20$, $49/30$.
For each of them $D_\lambda$ has positive rank, yet no order-four base of that ratio, among possibly infinitely many, yields a septuple.

**Corollary (Ш elements).** For each of the $97$ ratios with $\Delta_\lambda$ everywhere locally soluble and $\Delta_\lambda(\mathbb Q)=\emptyset$, the quadric intersection (3.1) represents a nontrivial element of $\text{Ш}(D_\lambda/\mathbb Q)[2]$. It is a 2-covering in the 2-Selmer group, by Theorem 1, and outside the Kummer image.

**Certificates.** Write $\kappa$ for the Kummer map $D_\lambda(\mathbb Q)/2D_\lambda(\mathbb Q)\hookrightarrow(\mathbb Q^\times/\mathbb Q^{\times2})^3$ [7, X.1]. Since $D_\lambda[2](\mathbb Q)\cong(\mathbb Z/2)^2$, the image has size exactly $2^{r+2}$, where $r$ is the rank. If explicit points and torsion generate an image of size $2^{r+2}$, that image is complete; no saturation is needed. Each ratio is certified by one of four routes.
- **Rank route 1 (200 ratios).** PARI's ellrank returns equal unconditional bounds $r_{\rm lo}=r_{\rm hi}$ [8], with explicit generators.
- **Rank route 2 (13 ratios).** The upper bound comes from another curve in the isogeny class. ellrank's bound $r_2$ is not an isogeny invariant, but the rank is, so $\operatorname{rank}D_\lambda\le\min_i r_2(E_i)$. Points found on $E_i$ are mapped back by the dual isogeny.
- **Rank route 3 (1 ratio, $35/24$).** ellrank at effort 4 gives equal bounds.
- **Rank route 4 (2 ratios, $41/32$, $50/31$).** The root number is $+1$, and $L(D_\lambda,1)\ne0$ by a rigorous interval enclosure. By modularity [10] and Kolyvagin [9], the rank is $0$.

  For route 4 we use $L(E,1)=2\sum_{n\ge1}(a_n/n)\,t^n$ with $t=e^{-2\pi/\sqrt N}$ [11]. The $a_n$, conductor $N$ and root number are computed exactly by PARI. The tail after $M$ terms is at most $4t^{M+1}/(1-t)$, since $|a_n|\le d(n)\sqrt n\le2n$. With $M=60000$ and 40-digit interval arithmetic:
  - $41/32$: $N=48576390$, $L(D,1)\in[9.659378378382182313312,\,9.659378378382182313342]$;
  - $50/31$: $N=30577935$, $L(D,1)\in[1.962767771505416108168,\,1.962767771505416108169]$.

  Both of these ratios have $N_1$ nonsquare and rank zero, so Corollary 6.1 of [1] already excludes them once the rank is known. The $L$-value is used only to certify the rank.

For nonempty verdicts, the class $(-N_1,N_1,-1)$ is the Kummer image of an explicit combination of rational points of $D_\lambda$. The classes are computed exactly from the coordinates, and this gives a rational point of $\Delta_\lambda$. For the $6$ rows decided on another curve of the isogeny class, the point on $\Delta_\lambda$ itself is checked in exact arithmetic (lverpt2.py). For empty verdicts, the class $(-N_1,N_1,-1)$ is not in the complete image. For the $302$ locally excluded ratios, the rank split $131/171$ uses the same unconditional bounds: equal ellrank bounds, or the isogeny-class minimum. No ratio was left undetermined.

### Proposition 5 (the genus-two fibre)

Fix $w\in\mathbb Q^\times$, $w\ne\pm1$, with $p^2=w^2+1$, $p\in\mathbb Q$. Writing $w=n/m$ and $p=h/m$ for a primitive Pythagorean triple $(m,n,h)$, put
$$F_w:\quad y^2=(x^2-1)(x^2-w^2)(x^2-p^2).$$
1. Eliminating $\lambda=(q^2-p^2)/w$ from $C_\lambda$ gives $(\lambda hw)^2=(q^2-1)(q^2-w^2)(q^2-p^2)$. So every point of $C_\lambda$ over $w$, for any $\lambda$, gives the point $(x,y)=(q,\lambda hw)$ of $F_w$, and conversely $\lambda$ and $h$ are recovered from $(x,y)$. $F_w$ has genus two and is bielliptic.
2. The quotient by $(x,y)\mapsto(-x,y)$ is $E_w:Y^2=(X-1)(X-w^2)(X-p^2)$. Replacing $X$ by $X/m^2$ gives $E_{m,n}$ of [1, (18)], whose roots are $m^2,n^2,h^2$. Indeed, with $s^2=ac+1$ and $t^2=bc+1$, the ratios $s/r=p/w=h/n$ and $t/r=p=h/m$ are the fixed ratios of [1, Theorem 7] up to swapping $m,n$, and $F_w$ is the genus-two curve in its proof, with $x=q=pr$.
3. The quotient by $(x,y)\mapsto(-x,-y)$ is, via $T=1/x^2$, $Y=y/x^3$, $T=1/p^2-U/(w^2p^2)$, the curve $E'_w:Y^2=U(U+1)(U+w^4)$. This is the induced curve of every base on the fibre. With $a,b,c$ as in Theorem 2, $ac-ab=q^2/(w^2p^2)$ and $bc-ab=w^2q^2/p^2$, whose ratio is $w^4$. In the Kubert form $x(x+s^2)(x+1/s^2)$ of [4, §8] it has torsion $\mathbb Z/2\times\mathbb Z/8$.
4. Hence $J(F_w)\sim E_w\times E'_w$. If $\operatorname{rank}E_w=0$, Theorem 7 of [1] excludes the fibre. If $\operatorname{rank}E'_w=0$, Proposition 8 of [1] excludes every base on it. Every base not excluded by these lies on a fibre with $\operatorname{rank}J(F_w)\ge2=g(F_w)$.

*Proof.* Items 1–3 are polynomial identities, checked symbolically in the supplement (wFw.py, winduced.py). Item 4 follows from them. ∎

The content of Proposition 5 is the identification in item 3. It gives one curve whose two quotients carry the two rank-zero filters of [1]. It also shows that Chabauty–Coleman on $F_w$ is never available on a fibre that survives them. Over the explicit set of the first $331$ Pythagorean $w$:
- $131$ fibres have $\operatorname{rank}E_w=0$;
- $60$ further fibres have $\operatorname{rank}E'_w=0$;
- $120$ have both ranks certified $\ge1$;
- $20$ have $\operatorname{rank}E'_w\in[0,2]$ undetermined.

This census excludes nothing beyond [1]. We include it only as data.

## 5. Results

The results combine as follows.
- For a density-one set of ratios, no order-four base of that ratio yields a septuple (Theorem 1, Corollary 3).
- For the remaining ratios, no further uniform local test exists among the conditions of [1] (Theorem 2).
- Up to height $50$, all but $104$ ratio classes are excluded (Theorem 4). The data for every ratio (rank, route, generators, Kummer image, verdict) is in the supplement.

Two observations come out of the box:
1. *Class sieves are not rank sieves.* The $30$ rank-one exclusions show that a positive-rank Jacobian does not keep a fibre alive. The obstruction is the Kummer class of the covering, an element of Ш, and not the rank. A rank-zero sieve can only remove fibres that contain no candidate. A class sieve can do more. Paper [12] uses a related obstruction (an intersection of two diagonal quadrics mapping to a rank-zero curve) on a single regular-twin curve. Here the curves are a one-parameter family, and $30$ of the obstructions occur at rank one.
2. *Strong ratios.* The local criterion never excludes $1+\lambda^2=\square$. In that case $d^2-n^2$ is, for $\lambda=2uv/(u^2-v^2)$, equal to $(u^2-3v^2)^2-8v^4$, whose odd prime factors are $\equiv\pm1\pmod8$. In the box there are $8$ such ratios. Five have rank zero and are among the reduced ratios. The other three, $15/8$, $21/20$ and $40/9$, are live.

## 6. Limitations

- **Order-four only.** All exclusions concern the order-four orbit construction. Septuples from other architectures are untouched.
- **Necessary conditions only.** A live ratio is not a construction. $\Delta_\lambda(\mathbb Q)\ne\emptyset$ says nothing about the lift squares, the coset condition, or distinctness.
- **Finite box.** Theorem 4 stops at height $50$. Corollary 3 has no explicit rate.
- **Trusted inputs.** Rank bounds rely on PARI 2.17.4's ellrank, which is unconditional according to its documentation [8]. The two route-4 ratios also rely on PARI's exact $a_n$, conductor and root number, and on Kolyvagin's theorem with modularity. All descent images and points are checked in exact arithmetic.
- **Proposition 5 is structural.** It explains why fibrewise Chabauty fails and excludes nothing new. Bielliptic quadratic Chabauty [13] may apply on fibres of type $(1,1)$; we have not tried it.
- **Global geometry not addressed.** We do not address the base surface as a whole, i.e. its Kodaira dimension or curves of low genus on it.

## 7. Reproducibility

The supplement contains Python 3 scripts and their JSON outputs. They were run with Python 3.12.3, cypari2 on PARI/GP 2.17.4, sympy 1.14.0 and mpmath 1.3.0. Run everything from the unpacked directory. README.md maps each claim to its script.

- `python3 lambda_run_all.py` prints `OVERALL PASS`. It covers:
  - the reduction to $\Delta_\lambda$ on the nine published bases (lam.py);
  - Theorem 1, including the 2-adic exhaustion and the 773-ratio local control (liff.py, liff3.py);
  - Theorem 2 (lAw.py, lAw2.py).
- `python3 lrefine.py` prints the table of Theorem 4 and `PASS`. It combines:
  - the descent records lglob.json and lref.json;
  - the isogeny-class descent lisog.json (lisog.py, with exact point checks in lverpt2.py);
  - the verdicts lbox_final.json;
  - the $L$-certificates lLcert.json.
- `python3 lLcert.py` recomputes the two interval enclosures.
- `python3 lloc_rank.py` recomputes the $131/171$ split.
- `python3 wFw.py` and `python3 winduced.py` check Proposition 5.
- wfib.py and wfib.jsonl hold the $331$-fibre census.

Rerunning lglob.py, lref.py and lisog.py recomputes the descents from scratch.

**License.** Text CC BY 4.0. Code MIT.

## 8. References

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