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Unified Phase - Amplitude Structure from Q5 Transport

Craig Edwin Holdway

Published May 16, 2026• 0 citations
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This paper establishes that a single scalar invariant µ = ½Tr(Q⊥R) simultaneously determines phase asymmetry, rotational defect, and interference structure in the reduced Q5 transport system. The central result is that µ links phase asymmetry, rotational defect, and interference source as the unique rotational readout coefficient of the reduced operator sector. The amplitude-square observable form \[ |√P₁ + e^{iφ}√P₂|² \]emerges from the interference structure under conditional uniqueness assumptions rather than being assumed. The solid core establishes: \[ µ ∝ Im(PQ̄) = |P||Q|sin(ΔΩ) \] ; µ is the unique antisymmetric rotational coefficient on the transverse phase plane P⊥; channel and operator definitions of µ coincide under the common-reduction assumption; the interference term µ⟨R⟩ is the sole phase-sensitive contribution to observables; and amplitude-square structure follows from the interference form. Conditional extensions (barrier holonomy, entangling power, effective generator, and emergent time) are explicitly separated from the solid core and stated with their open derivation dependencies. The paper demonstrates that interference and amplitude structure share a single origin in µ, and that the amplitude-square form is derived rather than assumed.

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10.5281/zenodo.20263123

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T59 establishes the equivalence of the channel-interference and barrier-holonomy derivations of the reduced rotational invariant μ\muμ within the Q5 transport architecture. The theorem shows that the antisymmetric rotational coefficient obtained from effective-channel interference and the coefficient obtained from barrier-mediated holonomy reduce to the same invariant structure after an admissible projection into the reduced defect sector. The result, therefore, identifies the two constructions not as competing mechanisms, but as equivalent reduced descriptions of the same mediated antisymmetric transport invariant. The theorem is structurally important because it demonstrates consistency between distinct reduction pathways in the Q5 framework. Rather than depending on a particular decomposition picture, the reduced rotational coefficient survives as a common invariant under the admissible reduction pipeline. This strengthens the interpretation of μ\muμ as a genuine reduced-sector transport invariant rather than a decomposition artifact. T59 also foreshadows the later residual ecology architecture developed in the TA-series, where mediated transport, projection, and reduced-sector elimination repeatedly produce equivalent effective structures across multiple derivational viewpoints. Status: solid for the equivalence of the reduced antisymmetric invariant under the stated reduction and projection assumptions; conditional on normalization and admissible reduction conventions used in the reduced defect sector; speculative for any claim that the microscopic physical mechanisms are ontologically identical rather than reduced-sector equivalent.
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