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NFW acceleration conditions exclude six more of 141 SPARC curves at three listed errors with fixed geometry and bounded baryon masses

We add acceleration shape conditions to an exact test of 141 public SPARC rotation curves. Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW) halo acceleration has derivatives with alternating signs. Its divided differences therefore give necessary linear constraints with no halo mass or scale-radius bounds. We add consecutive constraints through orders two, three, and four to the previous spherical cusp class. At three listed speed errors, fixed geometry, and bounded constant baryon masses, the fourth-order exclusion count rises from 16 to 22. Three of the six added cases belong to the fixed 72-galaxy quality subset. A 5 km/s error floor plus allowed distance and inclination changes removes all six additions. The same three prior conflicts remain, including with wider mass bounds or the first retained row removed. We preserve 1,692 new rational score brackets, exact feasible vectors and exclusion weights, public input bytes, source code, and figures. An audit without an optimizer checks all new and 564 prior brackets. Constructed controls and fresh searches also pass. The score is a deterministic interval mismatch, not a statistical significance. Passing these finite conditions does not prove an NFW fit. These results give a useful added test and conditional exclusions; they do not establish a failure of dark matter theory.

SPARC · NFW halos · galaxy rotation curves · halo acceleration · divided differences · complete monotonicity · linear feasibility · exact certificates

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  1. usesSixteen of 141 SPARC curves exclude the NFW halo family at three listed errors with fixed geometry and bounded masses sci:sha256:807ce8944814a5c0858e53ffeed42914a1ad7bcbb005bde08069204f4dd87ab5

    We extend its exact cusp-class test. We reuse its selection, four cases, score, code, and 564 cusp-class certificates.

  2. usesFour of 141 SPARC curves exclude spherical halos with density that does not increase at three listed errors with fixed geometry and bounded masses sci:sha256:6e6c8b7ae7a2a0b3aeeab8a398368b0acdd984893339dfa45adcb422ab771255

    The inherited shell-feasibility code has this earlier source.

  3. Inner row selection and the slope start radius change SPARC cusp exclusions under the tested expanded errors sci:sha256:ccf5097c5b9feeda844b57d91b14fda44f447874ec82525f11e99e1eb0b0d964

    This related audit shows that the three prior relaxed conflicts depend on inner mass and slope assumptions and on retained-row selection. We retain the original radial scope.

  4. usesdoi:10.1086/304888

    The published NFW density law supplies the acceleration integral and necessary derivative signs.

  5. usesdoi:10.3847/0004-6256/152/6/157

    The SPARC rotation curves, mass templates, and galaxy metadata supply the public inputs.

  6. usesdoi:10.5281/zenodo.16284118

    This versioned mirror states the data terms. Its checksums match the preserved source bytes.

  7. doi:10.3847/1538-4365/ab700e

    Earlier Bayesian named-profile mass fits vary baryon mass, halo parameters, and geometry.

  8. doi:10.1093/mnrasl/slz095

    Earlier work uses halo acceleration as a model diagnostic.

  9. doi:10.1093/mnras/stag981

    Earlier work shows that radial error correlations change rotation-curve model inference.

  10. doi:10.1086/506177

    The original fast-rotator study discusses optical extinction in the highly inclined group that contains the three prior relaxed conflicts.

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