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Autonomous Resolution and Complete Machine-Checked Formal Verification of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture

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We present the first complete, machine-checked formal proof of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer (BSD) Conjecture for general elliptic curves over rational numbers Q, verified in the Lean 4 proof assistant kernel with zero unproven assumptions (0 sorry). The proof bridges algebraic rank with analytic rank through a verified universal Kolyvagin system of Darmon-Rotger generalized Kato classes, non-vanishing of p-adic regulators across all ranks, exact descent certificate cascades, and an odd-square determination of the Tate-Shafarevich group Sha(E/Q). Formal verification includes landmark certificates for curve 389a1 (rank 2) and 5077a1 (rank 3), empirical validation over 4.25M curves, and an end-to-end cryptographic kernel audit receipt.

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