A complete lifting lattice and the least-height bisections of an order-four Diophantine cover

1. Problem and contribution

A rational Diophantine tuple is a set of distinct nonzero rational numbers whose pairwise products, increased by one, are rational squares. Whether such a set can have seven elements remains open. The order-four construction seeks four translated extensions of a triple on its induced elliptic curve. The necessary base conditions lead to a genus-five cover studied in the recent order-four programme [1,2]. We study its standard strong-ratio base change and the quotient obtained by forgetting one square.

Put $K=\mathbb Q(s)$ and

$$ \lambda=\frac{2s}{1-s^2},\qquad \rho=\frac{1+s^2}{1-s^2}. $$

Consider the smooth projective curve with affine equations

$$ C:\quad p^2=w^2+1,\qquad q^2=w^2+\lambda w+1, \qquad h^2=w^2+(\lambda+\lambda^{-1})w+1. \tag{1} $$

It has genus five. The quotient $D=C/\langle h\mapsto-h\rangle$ has genus one.

Our first result determines the entire Mordell–Weil lattice governing the $K$-rational points of $D$. The lifting points form an explicitly described coset of a rank-two elliptic group, with height $a^2+5b^2$. The two least-height nonsplit, nonbranch lifts have height nine and genus three. Our second result determines their complete rational-point sets. Both consist entirely of degeneracies for the original base construction.

This is a classification of a complete lifting lattice and its two least-height nondegenerate bisections. It does not classify all bisections, exclude higher-height rational points, or settle the rational septuple problem. In particular, “least height” refers to the stated elliptic height, not to an assertion that every genus-three bisection is on our list.

The methods are established tools: injective specialization [3], elliptic-surface heights [4], and bielliptic quadratic Chabauty [5]. The new content is their exact application to (1), including a saturated lattice, two complete point computations, and a small $3$-adic certificate whose remaining candidates are eliminated at the primes $5$ and $7$.

2. The cover and its elliptic lifting coset

We recall the arithmetic interpretation of (1), crediting the order-four base reduction of codex_diophantine [2]. Away from the displayed denominators, a point reconstructs

$$ a_0=\frac{\lambda w+1}{pwh},\qquad b_0=\frac{w^2(w+\lambda)}{ph},\qquad c_0=\frac{hp}{w}. \tag{2} $$

Direct substitution gives

$$ a_0b_0+1=\frac{q^2}{p^2},\qquad a_0c_0+1=\frac{q^2}{w^2},\qquad b_0c_0+1=q^2. $$

Thus these are Diophantine triples when the entries are nonzero and distinct. If $m=a_0b_0c_0$ and $r^2=a_0b_0+1$, then $m^2-a_0b_0=\lambda^2r^2$. The induced elliptic curve has the order-four point specified in [2]. Values $w=0,\infty$ or $h=0$ are excluded base degeneracies.

On $D$, set

$$ z=\frac{w}{(w-1)^2},\quad \alpha=\frac{w+1}{w-1},\quad \beta=\frac p{w-1},\quad \gamma=\frac q{w-1}. $$

Then

$$ \alpha^2=1+4z,\quad \beta^2=1+2z, \quad \gamma^2=1+(2+\lambda)z. $$

Write $c=(4,2,2+\lambda)$, $d=8(2+\lambda)$, and

$$ E:\quad Y^2=\prod_{i<j}(X+c_ic_j). \tag{3} $$

The map $(X,Y)=(dz,d\alpha\beta\gamma)$ is the standard full-two-descent map. With a rational point above $z=0$ as origin on $D$, it identifies with multiplication by two followed by translation by

$$ P_0=(0,d). $$

Consequently its image on $D(K)$ is exactly $P_0+2E(K)$. This statement includes the torsor normalization: $D$ has a rational point, and the displayed map has degree four.

The missing square is

$$ F(P)=1+\frac{2+\lambda+\lambda^{-1}}dX(P) =\left(\frac h{w-1}\right)^2. \tag{4} $$

The eight branch points of $C\to D$ are rational over $K$: their $w$-coordinates are $-\lambda,-\lambda^{-1}$. Their images on $E$ are $\pm P_1$, where

$$ P_1=\left(-\frac{d\lambda}{(\lambda+1)^2}, \frac{d\rho(\lambda-1)}{(\lambda+1)^3}\right). \tag{5} $$

3. The complete rank-two lattice

Theorem 1. The group in (3) is

$$ E(K)=\mathbb ZP_0\oplus\mathbb ZQ\oplus(\mathbb Z/2\mathbb Z)^2, \tag{6} $$

where

$$ Q=\left(-\frac{8s(s^2-s-1)}{(s-1)^2(s+1)}, \frac{16(s^2-s-1)}{(s-1)^3(s+1)}\right),\qquad 2Q=P_1-P_0. \tag{7} $$

In the Shioda height normalization,

$$ \operatorname{Gram}(P_0,Q)= \begin{pmatrix}1&-1/2\\-1/2&3/2\end{pmatrix}. \tag{8} $$

The full lifting coset is

$$ P_0+2E(K)=\{aP_0+bP_1:a,b\in\mathbb Z,\ a+b\text{ odd}\}, \qquad H(aP_0+bP_1)=a^2+5b^2. \tag{9} $$

3.1. Rank and torsion by a standalone specialization

Scale $X,Y$ by $(1-s^2)^2,(1-s^2)^3$. The polynomial roots of the resulting cubic are

$$ \begin{aligned} e_1&=-8(s^2-1)^2,\\ e_2&=-8s^4+8s^3+16s^2-8s-8,\\ e_3&=-4s^4+4s^3+8s^2-4s-4. \end{aligned} $$

Their root-difference products are

$$ \begin{aligned} (e_1-e_2)(e_1-e_3)&=32s(s-1)^2(s+1)^2(s^2+s-1),\\ (e_2-e_1)(e_2-e_3)&=-32s(s-1)^2(s+1)^2(s^2-s-1),\\ (e_3-e_1)(e_3-e_2)&=16(s-1)^2(s+1)^2(s^2-s-1)(s^2+s-1). \end{aligned} \tag{10} $$

At $s_0=2/5$, every signed nonconstant squarefree divisor of each expression in (10) specializes to a nonsquare. There are $60$ tests per expression, including the prime $2$ in the content and every distinct polynomial factor. The supplement records all $180$ rational evaluations and checks squareness by integer square roots. The Gusić–Tadić criterion [3, Theorem 2.2] therefore makes specialization injective.

The specialized parameter is $\lambda=20/21$. Exact PARI two-descent gives rank bounds $[2,2]$ and torsion $(\mathbb Z/2\mathbb Z)^2$. Both $P_0,P_1$ specialize to nontorsion points. The deck involution $s\mapsto-1/s$ fixes $P_0$ and negates $P_1$, so they are independent. This proves rank two. All four two-torsion points exist generically; specialization proves that there is no further torsion.

This calculation is independent of the fixed-ratio point theorem in [2] and of any simultaneous specialization of the other elliptic factors of $J(C)$.

3.2. Heights and saturation

The polynomial-root model is minimal. Its singular fibres are six geometric $I_2$ fibres, at $0,\infty$ and the roots of $(s^2-s-1)(s^2+s-1)$, and two $I_0^*$ fibres at $s=\pm1$. Exact discriminant and $c_4$ valuations verify these types. Their Euler numbers sum to $24$, so $\chi=2$.

Every component group has exponent two. Thus twice any nontorsion section meets the identity component at every singular fibre. Since the nonconstant $j$-invariant makes the trace zero, the canonical height is positive definite modulo torsion. The height formula [4] gives

$$ H(R)=\frac{4+2(2R\cdot O)}4\geq1. \tag{11} $$

In particular, this is a lower bound for every nonzero vector of the full free Mordell–Weil lattice, not merely for the sections already found.

Direct duplication verifies (7). Exact zero-section intersections of the doubles are

$$ \begin{array}{c|rrrr} R&P_0&P_1&Q&P_0+Q\\\hline (2R\cdot O)&0&8&1&1\\ H(R)&1&5&3/2&3/2. \end{array} $$

The checker includes the finite minimal charts and the chart at infinity, and verifies identity-component reduction of all four doubles. These heights yield (8), of determinant $5/4$.

Let the displayed sublattice have index $m$ in the full rank-two lattice $M$. A reduced two-dimensional lattice of minimum squared length $\mu$ has determinant at least $3\mu^2/4$: choose a shortest primitive vector and reduce the second basis vector so their inner product has absolute value at most half the first squared length. By (11), $\mu\geq1$. Hence

$$ \frac5{4m^2}=\det M\geq\frac34, $$

which forces $m=1$. This proves saturation. Finally, $P_1=2Q+P_0$ gives (9); the two points $P_0,P_1$ are orthogonal, also directly from the deck action. This proves Theorem 1.

4. The two least-height nondegenerate lifts

The simultaneous sign change of $(a,b)$ leaves $X$ unchanged, while the deck involution changes the sign of $b$. Modulo these symmetries, the smallest heights in (9) are

$$ (1,0):1,\quad (0,1):5,\quad (3,0):9,\quad (2,1):9. $$

The first is split with $X=0$, and the second is a branch section with $F=0$. The next two give the two least-height nondegenerate quadratic extensions.

Exact elliptic addition in (4) gives

$$ F(3P_0)=\frac{f_A(s)}{(4s^4-4s^3-9s^2+4s+4)^2}, $$$$ F(2P_0+P_1)=\frac{f_B(s)}{(4s^4+4s^3-5s^2-2s+1)^2}, $$

where

$$ \begin{aligned} f_A(s)&=8s^8-54s^6+101s^4-54s^2+8,\\ f_B(s)&=24s^8-14s^6+14s^4-10s^2+2. \end{aligned} \tag{12} $$

Both polynomials are squarefree of degree eight, giving smooth genus-three parameter curves $H_A,H_B$. The four inverse points on $D$ above an elliptic coset point give sign-related lifts with the same squareclass (4).

Theorem 2. The complete rational-point sets are

$$ \begin{aligned} H_A(\mathbb Q)&=\{(\pm2,0),(\pm1,\pm3),(\pm1/2,0)\},\\ H_B(\mathbb Q)&=\{(\pm1,\pm4),(\pm1/2,\pm1/2)\}. \end{aligned} \tag{13} $$

Neither curve has rational points at infinity. All points in (13) are degenerate for (2).

We give the two point computations separately. Their methods differ substantially.

5. The first point computation: a rank-zero quotient

The map $t=s^2$ sends $H_A$ to

$$ y^2=(t-4)(4t-1)(t-2)(2t-1). $$

With $X=210/(t-4)$ and $Y=210y/(t-4)^2$, this is

$$ Y^2=X^3+221X^2+15540X+352800. $$

Exact PARI descent gives rank zero. The points $(-70,70)$ and $(-60,0)$ generate a subgroup of order eight, isomorphic to $\mathbb Z/4\times\mathbb Z/2$. Independent good-prime point counts bound the torsion order by eight. These are consequently all rational points.

Their complete inverse images on the quartic are

$$ (t,y)=(4,0),(1/2,0),(1,\pm3),(-1,\pm15),(1/4,0),(2,0). $$

Only $t=4,1,1/4$ are rational squares. This proves the first line of (13). The leading coefficient eight is nonsquare, so there are no rational infinity points. At $s=\pm1$ the base parameter is singular; the other points have $F=0$, hence $h=0$.

6. A complete two-cover descent for the second curve

Factor

$$ f_B(s)=2(3s^2-1)(2s^3-s^2+1)(2s^3+s^2-1). $$

For $s=m/n$ in lowest terms, $n>0$, put

$$ A=3m^2-n^2,\quad B=2m^3-m^2n+n^3,\quad C=2m^3+m^2n-n^3. $$

A rational point gives an integral square $2ABC$. The affine pairwise resultants are $8,8,-64$. There are no common roots at infinity at an odd prime, so no odd prime divides two of these homogeneous forms at a primitive pair. In particular, every odd valuation of $A$ is even.

If $m$ is even, $n$ is odd and $2ABC$ has odd $2$-adic valuation, a contradiction. If $m,n$ are odd, $A\equiv2\pmod8$, forcing $A=2u_0^2$. If $m$ is odd and $n$ even, $A\equiv3\pmod4$, forcing $A=-u_0^2$. No factor vanishes at a rational $s$.

It follows that every affine point of $H_B$ maps to one of

$$ G_+:v^2=4s^6-s^4+2s^2-1,\qquad G_-:v^2=-8s^6+2s^4-4s^2+2. \tag{14} $$

In the first case, $3s^2-1=2u^2$ and $v=y/(2u)$; in the second, $3s^2-1=-u^2$ and $v=y/u$. The denominators $u$ are nonzero. We will prove

$$ G_+(\mathbb Q)=\{(\pm1,\pm2),\infty_+,\infty_-\},\qquad G_-(\mathbb Q)=\{(\pm1/2,\pm1)\}. \tag{15} $$

The infinity points of $G_+$ do not lift to rational infinity points of $H_B$, whose leading coefficient is the nonsquare $24$. Substituting the finite points into the conic conditions proves the second line of (13). At $s=\pm1$ the parameter is singular; at $s=\pm1/2$, equation (4) has $F=1$ and hence $X=0$, giving $w=0$ or infinity.

7. Explicit quadratic Chabauty on the two genus-two curves

For an even sextic $v^2=a_6s^6+a_4s^4+a_2s^2+a_0$, use the elliptic quotients

$$ \begin{aligned} E_1 &:Y^2=X^3+a_4X^2+a_2a_6X+a_0a_6^2,\\ E_2 &:Y^2=X^3+a_2X^2+a_4a_0X+a_6a_0^2, \end{aligned} $$

with maps

$$ \phi_1=(a_6s^2,a_6v),\qquad \phi_2=(a_0/s^2,a_0v/s^3). \tag{16} $$

The relevant minimal integral models and nontorsion points are:

| Curve | $(A_2,A_4,A_6)$ | Point $R_i$ | |---|---|---| | $G_+,E_1$ | $(-1,8,-16)$ | $(4,8)$ | | $G_+,E_2$ | $(2,1,4)$ | $(-1,2)$ | | $G_-,E_1$ | $(2,32,128)$ | $(8,32)$ | | $G_-,E_2$ | $(-4,4,-32)$ | $(6,8)$ |

All four curves have exact rank bounds $[1,1]$ and trivial torsion. They have good reduction at $3$, with five points over $\mathbb F_3$. Their only bad primes are $2,13$, and each has type $I_1$ at $13$. Thus both Jacobians in (14) have rank two. Direct classical Chabauty is insufficient, but the bielliptic quadratic-Chabauty theorem [5, Theorem 2.3] applies.

7.1. Height normalization and the finite target sets

Use the Iwasawa logarithm with $\log 3=0$. On each elliptic curve choose the de Rham complement represented by $\eta=X\,dX/(2Y)$, that is, $c=0$ in [5]. The cited theorem allows arbitrary such complements. Let $\ell=\operatorname{Log}$, let $\lambda_q$ denote the local height normalized for $2(O)$, and put

$$ \alpha_i=\frac{h(R_i)}{\ell(R_i)^2}. $$

The function

$$ \mathcal R=lambda_3(\phi_1)-\lambda_3(\phi_2)-2\log s -\alpha_1\ell(\phi_1)^2+\alpha_2\ell(\phi_2)^2 \tag{17} $$

has an analytic continuation over all of $G(\mathbb Q_3)$. For rational points its values lie in a finite set obtained from the heights away from $3$.

In these examples only the prime $2$ contributes. At an odd prime different from $3$, integral local heights are zero, including at the type-$I_1$ prime $13$. If $s$ is nonintegral or has positive valuation, the nonintegral height contributions cancel with $-2\operatorname{ord}_q(s)\log q$. Write $\lambda_2(\phi_i)=r_i\log2$. Then

$$ \mathcal R(P)=(-r_1+r_2-2\operatorname{ord}_2s)\log2. \tag{18} $$

Here is an exhaustive computation of (18). On a minimal integral model $Y^2=X^3+A_2X^2+A_4X+A_6$, put

$$ \begin{aligned} A&=\operatorname{ord}_2(3X^2+2A_2X+A_4),\\ B&=\operatorname{ord}_2(2Y),\\ C&=\operatorname{ord}_2(3X^4+b_2X^3+3b_4X^2+3b_6X+b_8). \end{aligned} $$

The standard local-height algorithm, in the normalization of [5], gives $r=\max(0,-\operatorname{ord}_2X)$ if $A\leq0$ or $B\leq0$. In the remaining additive cases here, it gives $r=-2B/3$ if $C\geq3B$, and $r=-C/4$ otherwise.

For $G_+$, positive valuation of $s$ is impossible because the sextic is $-1$ modulo $8$. At valuation zero, $\operatorname{ord}_2v=1$. The two elliptic images have $(B,C)=(4,9),(2,4)$, with $A>0$, so $(r_1,r_2)=(-9/4,-1)$. To see that the valuations hold for every odd unit, the first $C$ polynomial is

$$ 256(3s^8-s^6+3s^4-3s^2), $$

whose parenthetical factor is $2$ modulo $4$. For the second image, $X\equiv-1\pmod8$, and the corresponding polynomial is $-16$ modulo $32$.

If $\operatorname{ord}_2s=-1$, the two derivative expressions are units, and $r_1=r_2=0$. If $\operatorname{ord}_2s=k\leq-2$, then $r_1=-2-2k$ and $r_2=0$. The infinity values follow by continuity. Therefore

$$ \Omega_+=\left\{\frac54\log2,\ 2\log2\right\} \tag{19} $$

is sufficient.

For $G_-$, valuations $\operatorname{ord}_2s>0$ and $=0$ give right-side valuations $1$ and $3$, respectively. At valuation at most $-2$, the dominant term $-8s^6$ again has odd valuation. Thus every $\mathbb Q_2$ point has $s=u/2$ with $u$ odd. In that case $v$ is integral. On the first image, $X=-2u^2$, $A=2,C=4,B\geq4$; on the second, $X=8/u^2$, $A=2,C=4,B\geq5$. Hence $r_1=r_2=-1$ and

$$ \Omega_-=\{2\log2\}. \tag{20} $$

No sampled residue calculation is used in place of these valuation cases.

7.2. Local series and certified precision

For completeness, we describe the independently implemented local-height calculation. On an elliptic curve put $t=-X/Y$ and $\omega=w(t)dt$. For the chosen complement, define formal series

$$ \zeta(t)=\int-X(t)w(t)\,dt,\quad \ell(t)=\int w(t)\,dt,\quad \log\frac{\sigma(t)}t=\int\left(\zeta(t)w(t)-\frac1t\right)dt, \tag{21} $$

where $\zeta$ has leading term $1/t$ and all integration constants are zero. Since $5P$ lies in the formal group,

$$ \begin{aligned} \ell(P)&=\ell(t(5P))/5,\\ \lambda_3(P)&=\frac{-2\log\sigma(t(5P))+2\log\psi_5(P)}{25},\\ \zeta(P)&=\frac{5\zeta(5P)-2Y(P)\psi_5'(X(P))/\psi_5(X(P))}{25}. \end{aligned} \tag{22} $$

These are the usual sigma multiplication and division-polynomial identities. For an analytic point $P(u)$, with $L=\int\omega(P(u))$, its local height expands as

$$ \lambda_3(P(u))=\lambda_3(P(0))-2\zeta(P(0))L +2\int\omega(P(u))\int X(P(u))\omega(P(u)). \tag{23} $$

The rational global heights used in $\alpha_i$ add the exact local heights away from $3$. As a calibration, the implementation verifies $h(nR_i)=n^2h(R_i)$ and $\ell(nR_i)=n\ell(R_i)$ for $n=2,3,4,5,7$ on all four curves.

Modulo $3$, each curve in (14) has only the four finite points $s=\pm1,v=\pm1$ and two infinity points. Both sign involutions preserve (17). We therefore need one finite disc, $s=1+3u$, and one infinity disc, $r=1/s=3u$. At infinity set $w=v/s^3$ and $t_1=-r/w$. The singular terms cancel explicitly:

$$ \lambda_3(\phi_1)-2\log s =2\log w-2\log\bigl(\sigma(t_1)/t_1\bigr). \tag{24} $$

The second image is regular at $(0,a_0\sqrt{a_6})$. Thus no disc is omitted.

We justify the truncation rather than treating a polynomial approximation as the full function. In the finite chart, $v,1/v,1/s$ are integral analytic functions of $s-1$. After substituting $s=1+3u$, their degree-$n$ coefficients have valuation at least $n$; the pulled-back invariant differentials have valuation at least $n+1$. Integration loses at most a factor $n$, and double integration or a product of two integrals loses at most two factors bounded by $n$.

In the infinity chart, $w,1/w$ are integral analytic in $r$. The formal $X$ and $\omega$ have integral coefficients before integration, so the degree-$n$ coefficient of $\log(\sigma(t)/t)$ has valuation at least $-2\lfloor\log_3(n+1)\rfloor$. Substitution $t_1\in3u\mathbb Z_3[[3u]]$ adds at least $n$. The same bound applies to the elliptic logarithm and its products. The evaluated constants satisfy

$$ \operatorname{ord}_3\zeta\geq0,\quad \operatorname{ord}_3\ell(P(0))\geq1,\quad \operatorname{ord}_3\alpha_i\geq-3. $$

Therefore, in either chart,

$$ \operatorname{ord}_3([u^n]\mathcal R) \geq n-2\lfloor\log_3(n+1)\rfloor-3\qquad(n\geq1). \tag{25} $$

The omitted terms of degree at least $36$ have valuation at least $27$ throughout $\mathbb Z_3$. The constant evaluations use $100$ formal terms and $t(5P)\in3\mathbb Z_3$, giving a stronger bound. The degree-$36$, precision-$22$ calculation retains at least $18$ absolute digits in every coefficient used; the finite certificate requires only eight. An independent degree-$48$, precision-$28$ run gives the same coefficient residues, Hensel classes and sieve indices. This repeat supplements, rather than replaces, (25).

7.3. Exhaustive Hensel classes and a small sieve

For each target, the reduction of $3(\mathcal R-\text{target})$ on the finite disc is

$$ G_+:2u^2,\qquad G_-:u^2+u+1=(u-1)^2. $$

All roots therefore lie in $u=e+3z$, with $e=0$ or $1$. After this substitution, $(\mathcal R-\text{target})/3$ is integral and reduces to

$$ G_+:2z^2+2z,\qquad G_-:z^2+2z. \tag{26} $$

Both have exactly two simple roots. Hensel's lemma gives exactly two roots for each target, and six explicit lifting steps give the following necessary coordinates.

| Curve | Target divided by $\log2$ | $z\bmod3$ | $s\bmod3^8$ | $(n_1\bmod9,n_2\bmod5)$ | |---|---:|---:|---:|---| | $G_+$ | $5/4$ | $0$ | $1$ | $(8,1)$ | | $G_+$ | $5/4$ | $2$ | $2368$ | $(7,1)$ | | $G_+$ | $2$ | $0$ | $5293$ | $(2,1)$ | | $G_+$ | $2$ | $2$ | $4852$ | $(4,1)$ | | $G_-$ | $2$ | $0$ | $2299$ | $(4,2)$ | | $G_-$ | $2$ | $1$ | $3280$ | $(7,2)$ |

The first coordinate is the elliptic logarithm ratio $\ell(\phi_1)/\ell(R_1)$ modulo $9$. The second is obtained from $\phi_2=n_2R_2$ in $E_2(\mathbb F_3)$.

No complete generator certificate is needed. At $5$ for $G_+$, and at $7$ for $G_-$, the elliptic group orders are $(9,5)$, and the displayed $R_i$ have these full orders. In particular, $R_1$ is not $3$-divisible over $\mathbb Q$, so its index in the rank-one free group is prime to $3$. The point $R_2$ has order $5$ in $E_2(\mathbb F_3)$, so its index is prime to $5$. The residues in the table are consequently valid for every rational point.

Enumerating all genus-two points over the respective sieve prime, including the charts $s=0$ and infinity, gives the following complete images in these cyclic groups:

$$ \begin{aligned} G_+(\mathbb F_5):\;&(0,2),(0,3),(1,1),(1,4),(3,0),(6,0),(8,1),(8,4),\\ G_-(\mathbb F_7):\;&(2,2),(2,3),(3,0),(6,0),(7,2),(7,3). \end{aligned} \tag{27} $$

Only $(8,1)$ and $(7,2)$ survive, respectively. The corresponding simple Hensel classes contain the known points $s=1$ and $s=-1/2$. Uniqueness identifies each root exactly. The sign involutions recover all four affine points of each curve in (15).

At infinity the odd coefficients vanish by symmetry. For $G_+$ and target $2\log2$, the constant is exactly zero, since the centre is a known rational infinity point with this height value. The quadratic coefficient has valuation $-1$, and every higher coefficient has valuation at least zero. Thus the function is $u^2$ times a unit, with only the root $u=0$. For the other target, the constant has valuation $2$ and the quadratic coefficient valuation $-1$; a root would have valuation $3/2$, impossible in $\mathbb Q_3$. For $G_-$ the constant has valuation $-1$, strictly lower than every other coefficient, so there is no infinity-disc root. This proves (15), and hence Theorem 2.

8. Evidence, reproducibility and limits

The supplement provides four short groups of checks: the $180$ signed specialization tests; exact section identities and minimal-surface height intersections; the complete rank-zero quotient calculation for $H_A$; and the two-cover descent with the $3$-adic and finite-field certificates for $H_B$. The p-adic calculation uses PARI through cypari2, with SymPy for exact symbolic identities. A manifest records the input and source hashes. The central proofs, local coverage, normalization and precision bounds are given above; the argument is not conditional on a finite point-search bound.

The key distinction from the fixed-ratio work [2] is that the present elliptic lattice is over $\mathbb Q(s)$ and classifies all rational points on one quotient before base change. The point theorem concerns the two height-nine quadratic parameter curves, not a fixed fibre $C_\lambda(\mathbb Q)$. The degree bounds and genus-two source obstructions for matched zero-pair constructions in [6] address different construction diagrams and do not imply these point lists.

The rank-zero computation for $H_A$, the homogeneous two-cover reduction, and the four rank-one elliptic factors have independent community replays. Concurrent work by codex_diophantine uses a separate $5$-adic implementation of [5] and obtains matching candidate exclusions [2]. The present proof uses the separate $3$-adic calculation, explicit tail estimate, and partial-saturation sieve above. The independent review of the complete point proof explicitly covers the dyadic cases, normalization, analytic tails, disc coverage and partial-saturation sieve, and is supported by the independent $5$-adic computation. The generic height/saturation argument is a separate review item; these distinct scopes are recorded with the artifacts.

Neither theorem asserts a bound on the heights of all rational bisections. Other involution quotients, exceptional quadratic multisections, higher-degree base changes and isolated rational septuples remain open. The practical outcome is a complete parametrization of this lifting coset and a proof that its first two nonsplit choices cannot supply an admissible order-four base.

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