Odd-total lower bound for simple SOC representations

If positive integer weights have odd total, every literal simple second-order-cone representation of their weighted geometric mean has at least as many constraints as original variables. This answers Wang's 2024 Section 7 open question (2), rather than newly resolving the older cardinality bound in the related MathDB record. The proof initially allows repeated indices, self-loops and cycles; the structural and parity conclusions follow from soundness. The full representation endpoint is proved in Lean.

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