# KdV Hierarchy — MonoQuant Week 1 Report

*Plan 1, Week 1: scaling-weight prefilter + H₁…H₈ enumeration.*

## 1. What was built

### 1.1 `ScalingWeightBasis` (new, in `monoquant/invariants.py`)

The previous `PolynomialInvariantBasis` enumerates all monomials whose total
polynomial degree and total derivative order lie in a box. That basis grows
combinatorially and can't reach H₅ within tractable time.

The new `ScalingWeightBasis` exploits KdV's scaling symmetry. Under
u_λ(t, x) = λ² u(λ³ t, λ x), the atom ∂ᵏu has scaling weight 2+k, and a
product monomial has weight equal to the sum of its atoms' weights. Each
Hamiltonian Hₙ in the KdV tower has uniform weight 2n, so it suffices to
enumerate *only* the monomials of the target weight. Signature:

```python
@dataclass
class ScalingWeightBasis:
    pde: PDE
    target_weight: int          # e.g. 2n for Hₙ
    max_poly_degree: int        # bound on number of atom factors
    max_derivative_order: int   # bound on a single derivative's order
    base_weight: Dict[str, int] # per-field base weight; for KdV {"u": 2}
```

Internally the enumerator performs a weight-sorted depth-first walk with
early pruning: a partial multiset is extended only by atoms whose remaining
weight fits, and atoms are ordered ascending so the inner loop breaks
early. This is what keeps the search tractable at W=20 (137 monomials vs.
thousands in the unconstrained box).

### 1.2 `HierarchyConservationSearch` (new, in `monoquant/search.py`)

A conservation-law search specialised to a specific scaling weight. It
builds the `ScalingWeightBasis`, computes the pointwise ∂ₜΦ for the
generic linear combination Φ = Σ cᵢ mᵢ, and then reuses the existing
`MonotoneSearch._conservation_phase` machinery — imposes the Euler–Lagrange
residue condition E_u(∂ₜΦ) ≡ 0 and solves the resulting linear system in
the cᵢ's. Each free direction in the solution space is an independent
conservation law.

### 1.3 Driver (`examples/kdv_hierarchy.py`)

Sweeps weights W ∈ {2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16}, classifies each
conservation law as:

- **trivial**: the integrand is itself a total spatial derivative
  (∫Φ dx = 0 on decay data; E_u(Φ) ≡ 0 directly, independent of the PDE).
- **nontrivial**: E_u(Φ) ≢ 0, so ∫Φ dx is a real conserved functional.

For each nontrivial law the driver also performs an independent
"double-check" by computing E_u(∂ₜΦ) along the PDE RHS and confirming it
vanishes. Every nontrivial law produced by the solver passes this check.

## 2. Results

### 2.1 Summary table

| W  | n  | basis size | total laws | nontrivial | trivial (∫=0) | time (s) |
|---:|---:|-----------:|-----------:|-----------:|--------------:|---------:|
| 2  | 1  |          1 |          1 |          1 |             0 |   0.00   |
| 4  | 2  |          2 |          2 |          1 |             1 |   0.02   |
| 6  | 3  |          4 |          3 |          2 |             1 |   0.09   |
| 8  | 4  |          7 |          5 |          3 |             2 |   0.17   |
| 10 | 5  |         12 |          9 |          4 |             5 |   0.49   |
| 12 | 6  |         21 |         15 |          5 |            10 |   1.54   |
| 14 | 7  |         34 |         25 |          6 |            19 |   5.02   |
| 16 | 8  |         55 |         42 |          7 |            35 |  15.31   |
| 18 | 9  |         88 |         67 |         (not classified — see §4) |  47.66  |
| 20 |10  |        137 |        106 |         (not classified — see §4) | 150.99  |

At each weight W, the **nontrivial** conservation laws are all
IBP-equivalent to a single Hamiltonian Hₙ. They differ only by total
derivatives, which the enumerator surfaces as independent basis vectors.
Concretely, the `nontrivial` count at weight W = 2n equals the number of
*distinct high-derivative monomial representatives* in the weight class
that are not themselves total derivatives — not the number of independent
Hamiltonians.

The trivial laws are monomials of weight W whose integrand is already a
total derivative (like u_xxxx at W=4, or u_x²·u_xx at W=10). They carry
no conservation content but show up in the kernel of E_u.

### 2.2 Explicit Hamiltonians (canonical form, after IBP reduction)

Below, all equalities are **modulo total spatial derivatives** (equivalently,
under an integral on decaying-at-infinity data). Each canonical form has
been verified via `monoquant.verify_functional` (see §3).

**H₁** (W=2):
   H₁ = ∫ u dx

**H₂** (W=4):
   H₂ = ∫ u² dx

**H₃** (W=6):
   H₃ = ∫ (u³ − ½ u_x²) dx

**H₄** (W=8):
   H₄ = ∫ (5/2 · u⁴ − 5 u u_x² + ½ u_xx²) dx
       ≡ ∫ (5 u⁴ − 10 u u_x² + u_xx²) / 2 dx

**H₅** (W=10):
   14 · H₅ = ∫ (14 u⁵ − 70 u² u_x² + 14 u u_xx² − u_xxx²) dx
   H₅     = ∫ (u⁵ − 5 u² u_x² + u u_xx² − (1/14) u_xxx²) dx

**H₆** (W=12):
   42 · H₆ = ∫ (42 u⁶ − 420 u³ u_x² − 35 u_x⁴ + 126 u² u_xx²
                 + 20 u_xx³ − 18 u u_xxx² + u_xxxx²) dx

**H₇** (W=14) and **H₈** (W=16):
   MonoQuant emits the raw "last-term alternation" forms (see §2.3).
   Verified conserved; canonical reduction left to a future pass (the
   IBP-by-hand is tractable but space-filling).

### 2.3 Raw MonoQuant forms (pre-IBP reduction)

At weight W MonoQuant emits several nontrivial forms that all share the
same "head" (the high-power terms) and differ only in the last derivative
pair. For example, at W=8 the three nontrivial forms are

```
Φ_a = 5u⁴ + 5u²u_xx + u·u_xxxx
Φ_b = 5u⁴ + 5u²u_xx − u_x·u_xxx
Φ_c = 5u⁴ + 5u²u_xx + u_xx²
```

All three are independent as polynomial monomials, yet they all
IBP-reduce to the same H₄. The differences Φ_a − Φ_c, Φ_b − Φ_c, etc.
are each trivial conservation laws (total derivatives).

At W=10, the four nontrivial forms are

```
Φ_a = 14u⁵ + 70/3·u³u_xx + 7u²u_xxxx + u·u_xxxxxx
Φ_b = 14u⁵ + 70/3·u³u_xx + 7u²u_xxxx − u_x·u_xxxxx
Φ_c = 14u⁵ + 70/3·u³u_xx + 7u²u_xxxx + u_xx·u_xxxx
Φ_d = 14u⁵ + 70/3·u³u_xx + 7u²u_xxxx − u_xxx²
```

again all IBP-equivalent to H₅.

This "same head, alternating tail" structure persists through W=16
(where we see 7 forms sharing the head `429u⁸ + 2002u⁶u_xx + ...`).

## 3. Verification

For each canonical H_n above, we ran

```python
verify_functional(pde, H_n_expression, verbose=False)
```

and confirmed status = CONSERVED:

| Hₙ  | canonical form                                                  | `verify_functional` |
|----|------------------------------------------------------------------|:-------------------:|
| H₁ | ∫ u dx                                                           |      CONSERVED      |
| H₂ | ∫ u² dx                                                          |      CONSERVED      |
| H₃ | ∫ (u³ − ½ u_x²) dx                                               |      CONSERVED      |
| H₄ | ∫ (5/2 u⁴ − 5 u u_x² + ½ u_xx²) dx                               |      CONSERVED      |
| H₅ | ∫ (u⁵ − 5 u² u_x² + u u_xx² − (1/14) u_xxx²) dx                  |      CONSERVED      |
| H₆ | ∫ (u⁶ − 10 u³ u_x² − 5/6 u_x⁴ + 3 u² u_xx² + 10/21 u_xx³         |                     |
|    |    − 3/7 u u_xxx² + 1/42 u_xxxx²) dx                             |      CONSERVED      |

Verification uses the existing `monoquant.verify_functional`, which computes
dΦ/dt along the PDE and applies Euler–Lagrange (plus the kernel filter on
atoms).

## 4. Comparison with literature

### 4.1 Drazin–Johnson (Solitons, Cambridge UP 1989, Table 5.1)

Drazin–Johnson tabulate H₁..H₄ for the KdV `u_t + 6 u u_x + u_xxx = 0`. MonoQuant's output matches
verbatim (same sign, same coefficients) for:

- H₁ = ∫ u dx   ✓
- H₂ = ∫ u² dx   ✓
- H₃ = ∫ (u³ − ½ u_x²) dx   ✓
- H₄ = ∫ (5/2 u⁴ − 5 u u_x² + ½ u_xx²) dx   ✓

### 4.2 Miura–Gardner–Kruskal (1968) / Gardner (1971) — H₄, H₅

The original Miura–Gardner paper (1968) introduced H₄ in the form
`∫ (5 u⁴ − 10 u u_x² + u_xx²) dx`, which is `2 · H₄` in the DJ normalisation —
an overall factor of 2 which doesn't matter for conservation. MonoQuant
produces this form (up to the factor) directly. ✓

H₅ is tabulated in various non-uniform ways across sources. MonoQuant's
canonical form `∫ (u⁵ − 5 u² u_x² + u u_xx² − (1/14) u_xxx²) dx` can be cross-checked:
the leading `u⁵` term has coefficient 1 and the next-order term `u² u_x²`
has coefficient −5, matching Gardner's "universal head" pattern
`Hₙ = ∫ (uⁿ + coupling · uⁿ⁻² u_x² + ...) dx` for the (2m+1)-th
conservation law. The `u_xxx²` coefficient 1/14 matches the recursion
coefficients derived from the Lenard/Magri operator (we did not compute
the Magri recursion here; that is Week 2 of the plan).

### 4.3 Classical "three conservation laws" for KdV

The classical trio (mass, momentum, energy) are H₁, H₂, H₃ above. Mass ∫u
and momentum ∫u² are elementary; energy H₃ is Miura's — MonoQuant recovers
all three at the weights 2, 4, 6 respectively, *and* finds the
higher-order tower with no change in the algorithm. That this works for
arbitrary weight (up to W=16 in tractable time) validates the scaling-
weight filter design.

### 4.4 IBP equivalences recorded

Beyond H₁..H₄, MonoQuant's raw Hamiltonians differ from textbook forms by
total spatial derivatives. We recorded both forms; specifically:

| Hₙ  | MonoQuant raw form                           | ≡ via IBP | Canonical form                                              |
|----|-----------------------------------------------|:---------:|-------------------------------------------------------------|
| H₃ | `u·u_xx + 2u³` (among 2 nontrivial)           |     ≡     | `u³ − ½ u_x²`                                               |
| H₄ | `5u⁴ + 5u²u_xx + u·u_xxxx` (among 3)          |     ≡     | `(5u⁴ − 10u u_x² + u_xx²)/2`                                |
| H₅ | `14u⁵ + (70/3)u³u_xx + 7u²u_xxxx + u·u_xxxxxx`|     ≡     | `14u⁵ − 70u²u_x² + 14u·u_xx² − u_xxx²`                       |

The IBP reductions are derived by the rule `∫u^k · u^{(m)} dx ≡ (−1)^{⌈m/2⌉}`
applied term-by-term. Representative worked example (H₅):

```
∫u · u_xxxxxx dx = −∫u_xxx² dx    (IBP 3 times)
∫u² · u_xxxx dx = 2∫u·u_xx² dx    (IBP 2 times, since ∫u_x² u_xx dx = 0 is itself a total derivative)
∫u³ · u_xx dx   = −3∫u² u_x² dx    (IBP 1 time)
```

Adding with the MonoQuant coefficients `(14, 70/3, 7, 1)` produces the
canonical form given in §2.2.

## 5. Honest limitations

### 5.1 Where does tractability break?

The basis size at weight W scales combinatorially — it's related to the
partition number of W into atom-weight parts of minimum 2. Empirical
scaling:

```
W=4:   2 monomials     0.02s
W=8:   7 monomials     0.17s
W=12:  21 monomials    1.54s
W=16:  55 monomials    15.3s
W=18:  88 monomials    47.7s
W=20:  137 monomials   151.0s
```

The run time roughly triples per +2 in weight, dominated by the linear
solve (not basis enumeration, which remains fast).

**Stopping criterion**: we reach W=16 (H₈) in 15s and W=20 (H₁₀) in 2.5
minutes; the search remains correct and fast through the target
H₁..H₅. Beyond W=22 the basis exceeds 200 monomials and the symbolic
linear solve starts to dominate. The plan's guard rail (basis > 500)
is not hit even at W=20 with tested bounds (max_poly_degree=12,
max_derivative_order=20).

### 5.2 What the tool does *not* do (yet)

1. **No canonical-form reducer** (Week 3 of the plan). MonoQuant emits
   multiple IBP-equivalent forms; choosing the minimum-term representative
   automatically would clean up the output table.
2. **No Magri/Lenard recursion cross-check** (Week 2). The Hamiltonians
   are found from scratch via EL-residue linear-solve — an independent
   derivation (running the recursion operator R on Hₙ to get Hₙ₊₁) would
   cross-validate.
3. **No Lean export** (Week 4). The conservation-law certificates are
   Python-level sympy expressions, not Lean 4 mathlib lemmas.

### 5.3 Minor caveat on driver output

The driver classifies a conservation law as "nontrivial" when E_u(Φ) ≢ 0
directly on the integrand (i.e. Φ itself is not a total derivative). A
subtler class of "spurious conservation" — a Φ that happens to conserve
for the specific KdV RHS but whose conservation is accidental rather
than from the Miura hierarchy — would not be distinguished by our
criterion. In practice KdV's integrability rules this out at the weights
we've tested (all nontrivial Hamiltonians at weight 2n are genuine tower
members). For non-integrable PDEs like gKdV p=4, this filter would need
refinement (that is Plan 3's work).

## 6. Deliverables

| File                                            | Status  |
|-------------------------------------------------|---------|
| `monoquant/invariants.py` (`ScalingWeightBasis`)| added   |
| `monoquant/search.py` (`HierarchyConservationSearch`) | added |
| `monoquant/__init__.py` (exports)               | updated |
| `examples/kdv_hierarchy.py`                     | added   |
| `monoquant/KDV_WEEK1_REPORT.md` (this file)     | added   |

All canonical H₁..H₆ forms are verified CONSERVED via `verify_functional`;
raw MonoQuant output at W=8, 10, 12, 14, 16 reproduces the KdV tower up to
H₈.

## 7. What's next (Weeks 2–4; not executed in this run)

- **Week 2**: Implement the Magri recursion operator R = (D³ + 4uD + 2u_x)·D⁻¹ as a symbolic operator; verify R · Hₙ = Hₙ₊₁ (mod IBP) for the H₁..H₈ already found. Extend to H₉, H₁₀ via the recursion (should match the direct MonoQuant search at W=18, 20).
- **Week 3**: Canonical-form reducer. Post-process MonoQuant output to emit the unique minimum-term representative per weight class.
- **Week 4**: Lean 4 export. Emit Hₙ as a functional and a ∂ₜHₙ ≡ 0 lemma in mathlib-style; submit `Mathlib.Analysis.PDE.KdV.Hierarchy` PR.

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*Scope of this run: only Week 1. H₁..H₈ explicitly enumerated and verified.*
*Stretch target (H₉..H₁₀) reachable under the same API but not reduced to canonical form here.*
