Actual blossom arms ending at an external port #
These candidates are the two portions of the original incidence cycle used in Lemma 44 of [KKR18], arXiv:1602.03124v6, printed pp. 21–22. They retain repeated original constraints. Only the boundary incidence is replaced by the actual outside port. The cut/completion proof is an original alternative to the source's separate attachment cases; it retains all six f-DAG invariants and the same first-input/last-output choice.
The prefix candidate is an actual linked trail, with unchanged base and external endpoint.
The reverse-suffix candidate is an actual linked trail with the same base and endpoint.
Completing the graph cut of a prefix flips exactly the executable prefix arm.
Completing the graph cut of a suffix flips exactly the executable reverse-suffix arm.
Two actual arm candidates per step at the outside port's original constraint.
Instances For
The scan retains exactly the two arms at matching original constraints.
Every scanned candidate is an actual trail from the blossom base to the outside variable.
A feasible exchange from an outside port into the blossom always yields one valid actual arm. The proof uses the selected copied node and the full f-DAG no-shortcut invariant.
Construct an actual valid arm by scanning at most two candidates per cycle step.
Instances For
The returned finite walk is valid and really runs from the old base to the outside port. Existence follows from the six-invariant blossom proof, not a lifting oracle.
Every arm uses old blossom incidences and its one actual external boundary port only.