Membership in a singleton.
The remainder is a cell of the child partition.
A parent cell away from the target survives into the child partition.
Every cell of the child partition is the singleton, the remainder, or a parent cell away from the target.
The active union of the child entry state is the split-off singleton's vertex.
The singleton's vertex saturates every child cell: it is the whole splitter set of the singleton and misses every other cell.
The certificate invariant of the child entry state: the parent's equitability seeds every certificate, with the split-off singleton as the one active cell.
Splitting one open position advances the boundary count by exactly one at the next level.
The descent theorem: individualizing any vertex of a nontrivial cell of an equitable partition and refining with the singleton active yields an equitable partition at the next level.
A row-preserving flip names a rows map of the graph onto
itself: the packaging of flip_rows's conclusion that refine_map
consumes.
At a discrete partition, cell-content agreement is pointwise
agreement: the labellings of a StPerm pair coincide.