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Tensor-Product Structure and Entanglement from Resolved History Factorization: The Composite-Record Factorization of Binary Mechanics

Adam Alexander Dick

Published Jun 15, 2026• 0 citations
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This is Paper 005 in the Anaxiomatic Mechanics / pq-Spacetime stack. It develops the emergence of tensor-product structure and entanglement within Binary Mechanics. Building on the preceding treatment of effective Hilbert-space representation, it asks why composite quantum systems are represented by tensor products and why nonseparable, entangled states naturally appear. The central claim is that tensor products are not primitive assumptions. They arise when a finite binary-mechanical boundary problem can be decomposed into separately addressable boundary regions whose completion labels can be tracked independently. In that case, the joint completion structure is represented by the tensor product of the corresponding effective Hilbert spaces. Product states require a stronger condition: the underlying resolved graph histories and their phase counts must also factor across the chosen decomposition. Entanglement appears when completion labels remain separately addressable, but the underlying history ensemble does not factor. This non-factorization may be caused by cross-boundary graph structure, shared closure constraints, polarity consistency conditions, or other finite boundary restrictions. In this view, entanglement is the effective Hilbert-space expression of a shared finite history structure rather than a mysterious additional quantum postulate. The paper also distinguishes exact tensor products from physically effective tensor-product decompositions. Exact factorization is an ideal case; in physical applications, tensor-product structure is expected to hold when cross-boundary history constraints are negligible at the scale of description. The result is a finite, graph-history account of composite quantum structure: distinguishable completion channels give effective Hilbert bases, independently addressable labels give tensor-product spaces, factorizing histories give product states, and non-factorizing histories give entanglement.

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10.5281/zenodo.20701576

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