Geometry of normed spaces

Sphere Rigidity

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Rigidity of unit spheres in finite-dimensional real normed spaces

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The mathematical claim

CLAIM PRESENTED IN THE BRIEF REPORT

Finite-dimensional real normed spaces with isometric unit spheres are linearly isometric as normed spaces.

S(X)={xX:x=1}

This is an existence statement about the two spaces. It is not a claim that a prescribed sphere isometry extends to a linear isometry.

This is a preliminary, AI-assisted manuscript. Full human verification of this report version has not been completed.

Verification record

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Prior-art searchDocumented through 15 September 2026
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No equivalent result was identified in the sources examined through 15 September 2026. This is not a novelty certificate or a guarantee that no earlier result exists.

Human mathematical reviewHuman verification incomplete
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Full human verification of the Sphere Rigidity Brief Report, Draft R1, has not been completed. An AI-assisted review of the written argument was recorded on 10 September 2026; this is not human verification or journal peer review.

Lean formalizationMathlibAnnex v0.2.0 source public
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The exact MathlibAnnex v0.2.0 source release includes the Sphere Rigidity Project entry and source manifest. Its pinned qualification is recorded separately from human review and Brief Report correspondence.

Text ↔ formal sourceReport correspondence pending
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The correspondence between the Sphere Rigidity Brief Report, Draft R1, and the Lean formalization has not yet been checked in full.

LFH reading materialsResearch Companion available
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Brief Report publication record

Prepared: 10 September 2026. First published: 17 September 2026.

Responsible for publication: Ryotaro Tanaka. This role covers release, versioning, corrections, and withdrawal; it does not constitute mathematical authorship or independent verification. Issued by Exact Mathematics with AI.

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Formalization and LFH

The formal source is the MathlibAnnex v0.2.0 release, commit 30963f26ac8ffa3dc3e9ec9de91fd0f9daf05305, tree b3378851a5287f5e3c8418f668e4d0ba52718739. Project entry · Project Source Manifest.

The progressive Research Companion is available here: HTML · PDF · JSON. Its 467 exact declaration nodes do not create provisional Cards.

Correspondence between the Brief Report and this Lean release remains pending. The Project view records source structure; it is not a completed document alignment or human verification.

Prior-art search

Documented through 15 September 2026 · AI-assisted

Kadets and Martín explicitly separated the object-level question from Tingley’s marked extension problem: if two finite-dimensional normed spaces have isometric unit spheres, must the spaces themselves be linearly isometric? Their paper proves the marked extension result for polyhedral spaces and poses the broader object-level question [1, §5].

The search examined that paper, selected cited and citing literature, later work on Tingley’s problem, recent preprints, and broader searches under adjacent formulations. No source examined was identified as stating or clearly implying the same theorem for all finite-dimensional real normed spaces. The closest general inspected result covers every two-dimensional real Banach space [2]; other inspected results require special classes or additional hypotheses.

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Selected references

  1. V. Kadets and M. Martín, “Extension of isometries between unit spheres of finite-dimensional polyhedral Banach spaces,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 396 (2012), 441–447, especially §5. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2012.06.031.
  2. T. Banakh, “Every 2-dimensional Banach space has the Mazur–Ulam property,” Linear Algebra and its Applications 632 (2022), 268–280. DOI: 10.1016/j.laa.2021.09.020.

About the report

A standalone mathematical record.

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AI assistance and human direction.

The research direction and revisions were developed through human–AI dialogue. AI contributed substantially to proof development and manuscript preparation. This description does not imply that full human verification has been completed.

Related formalization materials.

The MathlibAnnex v0.2.0 formal source is public. The progressive Research Companion is available here in HTML, PDF and JSON. Public Declaration Cards remain zero, and correspondence between the Brief Report and Lean source remains pending.

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Record history

PDF-only report distribution

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Brief Report, Draft R1, prepared

The 22-page preliminary Brief Report and conventional manuscript incorporated the same local corrections. Preparation alone did not establish full human verification.

AI textual review recorded

Statements and proof applications were re-examined, with eight groups of local corrections recorded. Full human verification and a new Lean build were not performed.

Website record prepared

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