CLAIMS_STATUS.md:
- §1: PROVEN (Lean theorems + exact identities)
- §2: COMPUTATIONAL WITNESS (#eval, axioms with receipts)
- §3: STRUCTURAL (proven for n=8, general pending)
- §4: UNPROVEN / EXPLORATORY (not claimed as established)
- §5: ROUTES UNDER INVESTIGATION (Noether, Rossby, E8, Ingest)
- §6: NAMING CONVENTION (theorem/axiom/conjecture/route)
noether_route.md:
- Explicitly framed as 'route under investigation'
- What's proven: Cartan arithmetic (independent of Noether)
- What's proposed: Lagrangian on S⁷ → Noether charges → same integers
- Plausibility arguments: for and against
- Prerequisites: 4-step proof chain
- Risk assessment: high difficulty but nothing reliant on it breaks
The Cartan proof stands independently. Noether is a possible
deepening, not a retroactive justification.