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Pseudovolumes: Foundation, Construction, and Properties, Part I

R Quincy Robinson

Published Jun 29, 2026• 0 citations
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The sixty-four hexagrams of the Yijing are modeled here as a combinatorialindex for a rigid projection-invariant tensor — the pseudovolume — associatedto each positive rational scalar. The construction is organized as nine nodes xfive cardinal bodies x 64 hexagram cells, recovering the nine-node He Tu / LuoShu arrangement and identifying the five Wuxing phases with the vertices of aregular 4-simplex in four-dimensional space. The defining structural property is projection invariance: all 2,880 values areconstant across 32 projection planes corresponding to the rotation axes of adodecahedron, partitioned by Hamming weight into four axis classes. Thetransformation group is G = R x A5, where the alternating group A5 acts via anexplicit Mobius construction, connecting the hexagram combinatorics toicosahedral symmetry. The nine-node structure is the three-dimensionalprojection of two paired 4-simplices sharing a center. Each basis b determines a spectral partition M(b) of the 31 non-identityprojection planes into equivalence classes under grid equality; the associatedHilbert space is H_b = C^{|M(b)|}. The first main quantum-structural result isscale-invariance: |M(b)| depends only on the ratio class [b], not on themagnitude S = sum(b_i), so the quantum structure is magnitude-free. This isproved by tracing the linearity of the displacement function through thecardinal body construction and verified across 25,827,165 bases (sums 6--54). The second result is cross-scale indistinguishability: bases from distinct ratioclasses at distinct magnitudes routinely share identical Hilbert spaces andPVMs, with the within-sum collision fraction growing from 31.6% at S=30 to71.8% at S=54. The natural scalar observables are degenerate for effectively allbases; the correct observable structure is the spectral PVM {Pi_i = |m_i><m_i|},always complete without scalar labeling. Approximately 64% of degeneracy casesare permanently unresolvable by any symmetric function of plane indices: theseare A5-conjugate spectral class pairs. The model is fully self-inverse: all instrument parameters are exactlyrecoverable from the pseudovolume's own outputs. Structural results arecomputationally verified; the A5 identification and canonical multiplicationrule admit closed-form proofs. Code is openly available. This is Part I of a two-part work. Part II (Computation and Extension) developsthe exact-arithmetic single-site machinery and H4 multi-site extension.

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10.5281/zenodo.21038656

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The sixty-four hexagrams of the Yijing are modeled here as a combinatorialindex for a rigid projection-invariant tensor — the pseudovolume — associatedto each positive rational scalar. The construction is organized as nine nodes xfive cardinal bodies x 64 hexagram cells, recovering the nine-node He Tu / LuoShu arrangement and identifying the five Wuxing phases with the vertices of aregular 4-simplex in four-dimensional space. The defining structural property is projection invariance: all 2,880 values areconstant across 32 projection planes corresponding to the rotation axes of adodecahedron, partitioned by Hamming weight into four axis classes. Thetransformation group is G = R x A5, where the alternating group A5 acts via anexplicit Mobius construction, connecting the hexagram combinatorics toicosahedral symmetry. The nine-node structure is the three-dimensionalprojection of two paired 4-simplices sharing a center. Each basis b determines a spectral partition M(b) of the 31 non-identityprojection planes into equivalence classes under grid equality; the associatedHilbert space is H_b = C^{|M(b)|}. The first main quantum-structural result isscale-invariance: |M(b)| depends only on the ratio class [b], not on themagnitude S = sum(b_i), so the quantum structure is magnitude-free. This isproved by tracing the linearity of the displacement function through thecardinal body construction and verified across 25,827,165 bases (sums 6--54). The second result is cross-scale indistinguishability: bases from distinct ratioclasses at distinct magnitudes routinely share identical Hilbert spaces andPVMs, with the within-sum collision fraction growing from 31.6% at S=30 to71.8% at S=54. The natural scalar observables are degenerate for effectively allbases; the correct observable structure is the spectral PVM {Pi_i = |m_i><m_i|},always complete without scalar labeling. Approximately 64% of degeneracy casesare permanently unresolvable by any symmetric function of plane indices: theseare A5-conjugate spectral class pairs. The model is fully self-inverse: all instrument parameters are exactlyrecoverable from the pseudovolume's own outputs. Structural results arecomputationally verified; the A5 identification and canonical multiplicationrule admit closed-form proofs. Code is openly available. This is Part I of a two-part work. Part II (Computation and Extension) developsthe exact-arithmetic single-site machinery and H4 multi-site extension.
We develop a complete quantum information formalization of the spectralstructure of a rigid projection tensor (pseudovolume), establishing twostructural results that go strictly beyond Khrennikov's quantum integerframework (2010). The spectral Hilbert space H_b = C^|M(b)| assigns to each basis shape b (avector of positive rational components) a Hilbert space whose dimension equalsthe number of spectral classes — equivalence classes of 32 projection planesunder a grid-equality relation. The first main result is scale-invariance:|M(b)| depends only on the ratio class [b], not on the scalar magnitudeS = sum(b_i). In Khrennikov's framework the partition count p(n) is strictlyincreasing; here the quantum structure is magnitude-free. The second result is cross-scale indistinguishability: basis shapes fromdistinct ratio classes at distinct magnitudes routinely share identical Hilbertspaces and projection-valued measures, with hundreds of thousands of non-trivialcollision pairs across small magnitudes and onset of asymptotic universality athigher sums. In Khrennikov's framework no two distinct integers are everquantum-mechanically indistinguishable; here indistinguishability is the norm. The natural scalar observables are degenerate for 99.8% of basis shapes. Thecorrect observable structure is the spectral PVM {Pi_i = |m_i><m_i|}, alwayscomplete without scalar labeling. Approximately 50% of degeneracy cases arepermanently unresolvable by any symmetric function of plane indices: these areA5-conjugate spectral class pairs, a symmetry-protected structural featureabsent from the integer partition model.
We develop the computational structure of the pseudovolume tensor of Part Iin two sections. Single-site machinery establishes exact-arithmetic foundations. Thepseudovolume's five simplex vertices, lying in the integer lattice H_Z := Z^4,are projected onto the A5-invariant parallel subspace V_par ≅ R^3 to produce a131-point icosahedral quasicrystal; its A5 symmetry is verified algebraically(Procrustes error ~10^{-16}) and via golden-ratio pair-correlation spacing.Exact arithmetic is carried by the quadratic field Q(phi) = {a + b*phi : a,b inQ}, which closes under the G-metric inner products of H. The QPhiPEPS is aprojected entangled pair state on the 131 quasicrystal sites with Q(phi)-valuedvirtual bond indices and bond dimension chi = 2. The bond contraction theoremestablishes that every G-metric contraction of adjacent bond vectors is a purerational, so the MERA coarse-graining hierarchy terminates in Q. Additionalresults: the ring F_2[x]/(x^6-1) contains a [6,2,4] constant-weight code(W(z) = 1 + 3z^4); all four bulk parameters are exactly recoverable fromboundary observables with a 45:1 compression ratio. H4 multi-site extension lifts the single-site machinery to a multi-sitearchitecture. The subgroup index [2I:2T] = 5 — the unique algebraic origin ofevery occurrence of five in the model — forces a 5-site network with H4 asglobal symmetry group. The A5-equivariant inter-site bond maps force a GHZground state whose entanglement entropy equals log|M(b)| uniformly across allbipartitions. This identifies the invariant Phi(b) = log|M(b)| exactly: it issimultaneously the unnamed spectral invariant of Part I, the entanglemententropy of the 5-site network, and the contextuality measure of the local PVM.The Zimba-Penrose parallel is thereby promoted from analogy to structure. A120-cell tiling extends the network to 600 sites, introducing a qualitativelydistinct inter-cell bond algebra (intra-cell: 16 of 60 A5 elements; inter-cell:12 of 60, equal to |A4|) at each coarsening level. A robustness theorem givesthe exact ground-state fidelity threshold p*(m) = 1 - m^{-5} = 1 -exp(-5*Phi(b)) for preferred bases under independent depolarizing noise. This is Part II of a two-part work. Part I (Foundation, Construction, andProperties) is deposited at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21038657.
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The Geometric Vacuum (GeoVac) framework is a discretization scheme for non-relativistic quantum mechanics on natural geometries: the discrete graph Laplacian on a packed lattice of quantum-number labels replaces the continuous Laplace–Beltrami operator on the corresponding compact manifold. This synthesis paper assembles the framework's foundational arc—the packing construction, the discrete graph and its dynamics, the conformal equivalence with the unit S3S^3S3, the exchange constant taxonomy, the angular sparsity theorem, the Bargmann–Segal lattice, and the universal/Coulomb partition, together with the reconvergence node where these threads cohere (two-body selection rules from the tensor-product triple, the period classification, the Tannakian substrate and cosmic-Galois injection, and the forced/free seam)—into a single coherent narrative. The arc has a dependency structure worth naming: a single taproot (the packing construction, made physical by the Fock S3S^3S3 projection) fans out into the framework's machinery, then reconverges at the periods, Tannakian, and forced/free nodes, where the scattered structural findings cohere into one statement about what the framework forces and what it consumes. Four headline structural results frame the program: (a) the discrete Fock graph is conformally equivalent to the unit S3S^3S3 Laplace–Beltrami operator, verified by 18 independent symbolic proofs; (b) the angular sparsity of two-body matrix elements depends only on lmax⁡l_{\max}lmax​ and is bit-identical across five distinct central potentials, qualifying as a potential-independent theorem about spherical-fermion bases; (c) the three-dimensional isotropic harmonic oscillator admits a discrete graph encoding on the Hardy space H2(S5)H^2(S^5)H2(S5) that is bit-exactly πππ-free in exact rational arithmetic at every finite cutoff; (d) the framework's results split cleanly along an A/D partition—an algebra-only universal sector that transfers free across central potentials, and a Dirac-operator-specific sector containing the spectrum, the calibration πππ, and the candidate fine-structure-constant combination of Paper 2. A structural reading we make explicit in this synthesis is that the framework's substrate-level scale-freedom—the packing diameter d0d_{0}d0​ cancelling out of every spectral quantity, and physical scales entering only through the Fock-projection focal length p0p_{0}p0​—is the geometric expression of the same principle that conformal field theory [ref] embodies at the physics level. GeoVac provides a scale-free mathematical substrate; CFT is a scale-free physics theory living on such a substrate. This is not a claim that GeoVac is a CFT; it is a structural reflection that explains why the framework reproduces continuum CFT-on-sphere observables bit-exactly (documented in the operator-algebra arc, outside the foundations scope of this synthesis). We present GeoVac as a discretization framework that exploits natural geometry, not as a new foundation for quantum mechanics: the discrete graph and the continuous Laplace–Beltrami operator are dual descriptions connected by proven conformal maps, and the interpretive question of which description is more fundamental is left open. The framework's concrete computational advantages—O(V)O(V)O(V) sparsity, integer eigenvalues on the unit S3S^3S3, angular momentum selection rules baked into the basis, bit-exactly rational matrix elements on the Bargmann–Segal lattice, and the universal sparsity bound—are independent of that interpretive question. GeoVac synthesis document. Part of the GeoVac research corpus (synthesis / reading guide group). Code, tests, and the full paper series: https://github.com/jloutey-hash/geovac. Corpus archive DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20482394. Corpus version at deposit: v4.75.0.