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THE BETHE–PROJECTION PRINCIPLE Extracting Sparse Invariant Coordinates from Many-Body Hilbert Spaces

Michael I Aksman

Published Jun 2, 2026• 0 citations
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The fundamental barrier to understanding quantum many-body systems is the exponentialexplosion of the exact Hilbert space, which natively obscures macroscopic interpretability.We demonstrate that structural reality cannot be directly observed in the full wavefunction,but must be extracted by identifying a low-dimensional invariant manifold. We unite two historically distinct mathematical solutions to this dimensionality crisis: the Bethe Ansatz for1D integrable spin chains, and the extraction of the chemical bond via Maximally EntangledAtomic Orbitals (MEAOs). While the Bethe Ansatz relies on exact integrability and MEAOrelies on operator reduction, both are governed by a singular, overarching mechanism: theBethe–Projection Principle. We formalize that interpretability does not arise from computing the continuous continuum, but from identifying sparse invariant coordinates hiddenwithin enormous state spaces.

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10.5281/zenodo.20512182

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