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VERTEX-COVER

This facade exports the first formalized layers of CLRS Section 34.5: the shared graph-plus-target representation, deterministic graph complement, the textbook equivalence between a size-k clique and a size-at-most |V| - k cover in the complemented graph, and its exact lift to total raw-string maps in both directions. Both maps factor through one shared guarded complement function and have explicit cubic output-length bounds. It also exports an executable Boolean certificate checker, its exact semantics, a quadratic accepted-certificate bound, and the textbook NP-completeness theorem.

The raw syntax-normalization phase, complement emitter, total reduction, and complement-clique certificate verifier are all realized by fixed polynomial- time TM2 machines on their complete raw encodings.