Context
Chen and Kricker constructed a surjection from their six-root quantum gluing module to the six-root image inside the extended Panitch–Park target and conjectured it was injective.
Definitions
- U is the full face-cone quantum torus; S is its six-root shape subtorus.
- The difference-of-paired-exponents grading has degree-zero component U_0=S.
Hypotheses and scope
- The standard presentation extends tetrahedron relations on the right and edge relations on the left.
- The shape algebra is Laurent, as in Chen–Kricker Remark 5.23 and equation (5.7).
- The coefficient ring contains only the distinguished units stated in Theorem 1.1.
Proof or evidence
Exact right-unit normalization puts every ambient tetrahedron generator into the degree-zero extension of a six-root relation. The degree-zero S-bimodule projection then computes the full mixed-sided intersection and proves injectivity.
Verification notes
The proof was independently reconstructed and challenged against the complete relation list, sidedness, coefficient ring, self-gluings, opposite-root sectors and named-trace scope. Ordered-PBW and independent Weyl verifiers pass. The full audit is at /evidence/dehn-filled-quantum-trace/ck-publication-audit/hostile-publication-audit.md.
Limitations
- Chen–Kricker Definition 5.7(i) contains one contradictory 'left ideal' phrase; no theorem is asserted for that altered closure and no author-confirmed erratum is claimed.
- There is no external peer review or author endorsement.
- A bounded search found no earlier resolution but does not establish first priority.
- This comparison theorem does not prove Panitch–Romo Conjecture 7.1. The later supporting local-collar packet records the named six-root peripheral action at generic parameter.