Vertex conservation for the Δ^ρ / Δᵈ (deletion) cut enumeration #
The deletion coproduct cutSummandsP (MCB Δ^ρ, Def. 1.2.6) extracts a crown
forest and leaves the remainder ρ_C(T) — the cut subtrees are removed
entirely (no trace placeholder), so vertices are conserved exactly:
Σ #V(crown) + #V(trunk) = #V(T) (cutSummandsP_numNodes), with no +#cuts
correction (contrast the trace variant, which adds one replacement leaf per cut).
MCB's Δᵈ (Def. 1.2.5) rebinarizes the remainder via contractUnary; each
contracted unary node drops one vertex, giving the +2-per-cut accessible-term
extraction (eq. 1.6.7) downstream.
Vertex conservation for the deletion cut enumeration (tree level): crown vertices plus trunk vertices recover the tree's vertices exactly.
Mutual aux: vertex conservation for children-list deletion cut summands.
Mutual aux: vertex conservation for per-child deletion actions.
Nonplanar descent + Δᵈ extraction #
Vertex conservation for the nonplanar deletion cuts, descended from
cutSummandsP_numNodes.
No proper cut extracts the whole tree as its crown. For any cut summand
p ∈ cutSummandsN T, the crown forest p.1 is never the singleton {T}.
The full-tree extraction is the separate ofTree T ⊗ 1 term of comulTreeN,
not a member of cutSummandsN T. Derived from vertex conservation
(cutSummandsN_numNodes) plus numNodes_pos: a {T} crown would force the
trunk to have zero vertices. Load-bearing for the Merge cross-term
elimination (Minimalist.Merge.mergeOp_pair).
No cut of T has T itself in its crown. Every crown component is a
proper part of T, so it has strictly fewer vertices than T; the
full-size T cannot be a crown member. From vertex conservation
(cutSummandsN_numNodes) plus numNodes_pos. Mirrors legacy
CutShape.not_mem_cutForest_self; load-bearing for the Sideward cross-term
elimination (Minimalist.Merge.mergeOp_sideward_2b/3b).
Single-cut Δᵈ accessible-term extraction (MCB eq. 1.6.7): deleting one
accessible subtree mover from T and rebinarizing the remainder
(contractUnary p.2) removes two accessible terms — the subtree's edge and
the contracted parent. The hypothesis unaryCount p.2 = 1 characterizes a
single edge cut at a binary node (exactly one unary node is created).