The composed-weights criterion for antisymmetric order #
The master reduction turning the antisymmetric-order conditions of a
Runge–Kutta scheme (arXiv:2507.21006, Section 8) into finite tableau
arithmetic: a scheme has antisymmetric order at least m iff the
elementary weights of the composed tableaux rk ∘ rk and rk* ∘ rk
agree on all planar trees of order at most m.
We also record the classification of rooted trees of order at most two,
used to turn the order-two conditions into the two weight identities
Σ b = 1 and Σ b c = 1/2.
The unique tree of order one is the one-node tree.
Order-one forests are the singleton one-node tree.
The unique tree of order two is the two-chain.
The two-chain rooted tree in PTree form.
The composed-weights criterion for antisymmetric order: by the
SC ⟺ EC theorem, a Runge–Kutta method has antisymmetric order at least
m iff the elementary weights of the two composed tableaux rk ∘ rk and
rk* ∘ rk agree on all planar trees of order at most m — no coproducts
or antipodes required (arXiv:2507.21006, Section 8).