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Complement-Symmetric Carrier Normalization and the Leg-Matching Identity

Craig Edwin Holdway

Published May 3, 2026• 0 citations
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This Theorem closes the second open assumption of the T39 bridge lemma by deriving the leg-matching identity a = √2‖v_L‖ + O(δ²_eff) from Q5 carrier structure. Two independent Q5-native mechanisms force the leading-order identity. The complement involution ι: x ↦ 1 − x maps the Hamming-weight-1 subspace isometrically onto the Hamming-weight-2 subspace, intertwines the T24 ambient su(2) action by sign-reversing Ĵ_z and exchanging Ĵ_±, and satisfies ι(v_L) = v_R with ‖v_R‖ = ‖v_L‖. Within the spin-1 module V₁ carried by the Hamming-weight-1 sector, the raising operator Ĵ₊ acts with matrix element √2 between adjacent weight states, a standard spin-1 Clebsch-Gordan coefficient. Combining: at leading order a = √2‖v_L‖, where the √2 is the canonical spin-1 matrix element, not a normalization convention. The Y-transport correction is quadratic not linear: since θ = π/2 + O(δ_eff) from T43, the amplitude scales as sin θ = cos(O(δ_eff)) = 1 − O(δ²_eff), giving a = √2‖v_L‖ + O(δ²_eff). The leading-order result is stable to first order in the off-support leakage. Together with T43, both open assumptions in the T39 bridge lemma are now derived results. Status: Complement isometry solid: direct computation on the residual carrier basis. Spin-1 matrix element solid: standard result. Leading-order leg-matching conditional on identification of transport leg amplitude with Ĵ₊ matrix element on V₁ is structurally natural within the T24–T25 framework but not yet derived from explicit kernel-level transport generators. Quadratic correction inherits T43 parametric control conditionality. All results inherit T22–T25 and T39 conditionality. Dependencies: T22, T24, T25, T39, T43.

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10.5281/zenodo.20016721

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