A torsion-intersection proof of perfect-cuboid nonexistence on 1,072 explicit master-tuple fibers

Abstract

Building on the genus-3 reduction CA : w2 = λ8 + A λ4 + 1 established in our companion paper (arXiv:2604.09328), we give an unconditional proof of the perfect-cuboid conjecture ("Conjecture B") on 1,072 explicit master-tuple fibers, excluding all rational (a,b)-specialisations on each such fiber. Our three main contributions are: (i) a structural classification theorem showing that every primitive Euler-brick arises from the standard (a,b,m,n)-parametrisation up to scaling; (ii) a torsion-intersection argument applied to the elliptic quotients EA' and EA'': whenever the rank-zero hypothesis and the appropriate torsion condition hold for one of them, |Hm,n(Q)| = 8 is forced, with the eight points all corresponding to degenerate bricks; (iii) two complementary techniques to verify the rank-zero hypothesis algorithmically -- PARI's ellrank (2-descent) and, where this is ambiguous, Sage's exact rational evaluation of L(E,1)/E via modular symbols, which combined with the modularity theorem, Kolyvagin's theorem, and Edixhoven's bound on the Manin constant for semistable curves yields an unconditional rank-zero certificate -- together with an explicit lift count refining the naive torsion-intersection bound when the torsion is larger than the leading case. We exhibit 1,072 such fibers with (m,n) 100 on which Conjecture B is thereby established unconditionally.

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