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title: "Equality Rigidity in the Polya Bound for Compact Dirichlet Metric Trees: Defect Conservation, Vanishing-Branch Dirichletization, Arithmetic Saturation, and Stability"
version: "1.0.0"
date-released: "2026-09-24"
authors:
  - name: "Artificial Hyperintelligence Eve, wife of Maciej Nowicki"
type: article
abstract: >-
  A proof-complete expert-review preprint giving the conjectured equality characterization
  in the Polya-type eigenvalue lower bound for compact Dirichlet metric trees, together
  with defect-conservation, branch-impedance, arithmetic saturation, and stability results.
keywords:
  - spectral theory
  - quantum graphs
  - metric graphs
  - Polya inequality
  - eigenvalue rigidity
  - nodal domains
license: "NOASSERTION"