IECZ-III: Hardcore Condensation Lift with Size-Aware Invariants
Authors
Marko Lela
Abstract
This paper develops a compact, size-aware blueprint for transferring structure through gadget lifts. Two low-order invariants -- cumulative mod-$q$ Fourier mass up to degree $k$ and noise stability $\mathrm{Stab}_ρ$ -- are treated as a reusable "profile" tied to the gadget's affine interface. Under coordinate permutations ($Δ=1$) the profile is preserved exactly; under bounded fan-in the degree budget relaxes by at most $+Δk$ (i.e., $k \mapsto k + Δk$), with all overheads tracked explicitly. In a balanced window $m=(1+γ)n$ the framework yields a distributional lower bound for a monotone cost (Erasure Complexity, EC) and an "echo" to correlation against size-aware $\mathrm{AC}^0{+}\log$ and to logarithmic degree in the polynomial-calculus setting. The accounting keeps total-variation non-expansion and a single $O(\log N)$ prefix-free header visible end to end, avoiding hidden slack.
