The hidden spread ETF and its 36 Norton axes

Passes 3694–3700 reconstruct the result from finite geometry and freeze every promoted claim in an executable certificate.

ETF(15,36)

Centered line–spread incidence. Coherence 1/5. Welch bound saturated.

21

Minimal orthogonal guard rank for an exact 36-mode Naimark/unitary completion.

36 axes

Primitive idempotents with spectrum 1¹, (−1/2)⁵, (1/6)⁹.

120 triples

Three triples per W33 line; ten triples through every spread.

Frame identity

C = B − J/4,   CᵀC = 18E₁₅,   E₁₅ = I/2 + A/6 − J/12.

The normalized Gram entries are +1/5 when two spreads share four lines and −1/5 when they share one line. The Seidel matrix obeys S²−2S−35I=0, with spectrum 7¹⁵ and (−5)²¹.

Norton multiplication

x⋆y = E₁₅(x∘y),   aᵢ = 6E₁₅eᵢ,   aᵢ⋆aᵢ=aᵢ.

Adjacent spreads satisfy aᵢ⋆aⱼ=(aᵢ+aⱼ)/6. Every nonadjacent pair selects a unique third axis:

aᵢ⋆aⱼ=−(aᵢ+aⱼ)/6+aₖ/3.

Those selections are exactly the 120 triples. Each triple shares one W33 line, and the nine spreads through any line split into three disjoint triples.

Firewalls

Not Majorana. The algebra is positive Frobenius and axial, but the −1/2 eigenvalue and fusion law do not match Monster/Majorana type. Concrete Monster words and the degree-81 class-fusion multiplicity remain pending executable targets.

The 36-ray magic orthogonality graph is 11-regular with spectrum 11¹, 2²⁰, (−1)³, (−4)¹². The spread graph is 15-regular with spectrum 15¹, 3¹⁵, (−3)²⁰. They are not isomorphic.

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