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Formalize Carathéodory's and Loewner's conjectures - #5066

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This PR does the following:

  • formalize the smooth and real-analytic Loewner conjectures using the winding number of the trace-free Hessian;
  • formalize smooth and real-analytic Carathéodory conjectures for parametrized convex two-spheres;
  • formulate Carathéodory umbilics through proportional first and second fundamental forms, with reusable equivalence lemmas;
  • record that the smooth Loewner conjecture implies the smooth Carathéodory conjecture.

The classical formulations follow Ghomi’s Problems 8.1 and 8.2, with the analytic results sourced to Titus.

The complete sorry-free counterexample proof is in the dependent draft PR #5070. That PR proves both smooth statements false, pins their formal_proof metadata to a kernel-checked commit, and includes the full informal proof.

@github-actions github-actions Bot added the other use for changes in the `FormalConjectures/Other` directory label Aug 19, 2026
@github-actions github-actions Bot added the for-mathlib touching our `FormalConjecturesForMathlib` dir label Aug 20, 2026
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