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Reduced Nodal-Sheet Fragmentation in a Four-Dimensional Two-Boundary Schrödinger Benchmark

Christian Barker

Published May 2, 2026• 0 citations
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This paper extends the two-boundary obstruction programme into an explicit four-dimensional Schrödinger benchmark and asks a narrower question than the companionreduced-testbed paper: when a four- dimensional quasiperiodic model is comparedagainst matched roughness nulls, does the obstruction decomposition distinguish thequasiperiodic case by scalar defect magnitude or by nodal morphology? Forward andbackward histories are generated by split-step Schrödinger propagation for free, barrier,and quasiperiodic configuration-space models, and the four-dimensional obstructionfield˜Dnumα = (A+ B) + αΞi + (1−α)Ξf is evaluated on those histories. The first result is algebraic: the full reconstructionremains at machine precision in four dimensions, with relative residuals of order 10−15.The second result is comparative: in a 100-seed matched-null ensemble at α= 0.50, thequasiperiodic case does not exceed the nulls in obstruction-only residual or active nodalfraction. The surviving signal is instead topological morphology. Relative to matchedroughness, the quasiperiodic benchmark yields fewer nodal-sheet components, a lowernode-normalized fragmentation index, and a lower threshold-persistence componentcount. A larger-lattice 204 check using the actual nodal-overlap mask confirms the samedirection while rejecting an axis-spanning interpretation for the original localized-statesetup: the strict x- and w-spanning metrics remain zero for both the reference and all24 larger-lattice nulls. A broader boundary-state scan then shows that spanning can beinduced by sufficiently broad face-to-face states, but that most overlap-mask spanning isgeometry-driven and reproduced by matched nulls. One limited candidate does survivea dedicated 50-null follow-up: for a broad face-to-face x-state under the interferencemask, the quasiperiodic reference shows weak but nonzero strict spanning persistenceand larger continuous span scores than the null ensemble. A final cubical-homology check then shows that this surviving spanning candidate is not handle-rich: it spansthrough a comparatively simple foreground with lower b1 + b2 + b3 than the matchednull mean. The bounded conclusion is therefore not that quasiperiodicity amplifiesscalar obstruction in four dimensions, but that in this exploratory configuration-spacebenchmark it is associated primarily with reduced nodal-sheet fragmentation and, underone specific broadened boundary geometry, with limited interference-mask spanningrelative to matched roughness, without evidence of excess topological redundancy.

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