Unrefereed candidate manuscript and exact local symbolic checks for degree-difference identities and affine slices of binary-form factorisation spaces. Status: unrefereed candidate mathematical manuscript. No peer review, no independent external reproduction, and no external human verification of the complete manuscript are documented. Deposit on Zenodo does not upgrade this status; the bundle is offered for scrutiny. Attribution (repository-reported): the manuscript is attributed to OpenAI Codex / Anthropic models. Research direction and mediation, repository maintenance, and publication: Ian Pitchford, who is the CC0 affirmer only to the extent he holds the relevant copyright and related rights. Model and provider names describe the documented workflow and do not imply endorsement by OpenAI or Anthropic; the account is repository-reported, not an externally audited authorship determination. Archive: git archive (exact tracked files, no .git directory) of commit 38bb6c2054fd1e231233ee9c1bbd8ebf7b666685 (tag v0.1-candidate) of github.com/ipitchford/degree-difference-affine-slices.

Unrefereed candidate. Preserve the candidate status and version when citing.