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Topos Theory and ZEBTS‑SUPER: A Rigorous Categorical and Operator‑Geometric Reconstruction of Physical Reality

Anatolii Mukha

Published Jul 24, 2026• 0 citations
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Abstract Standard quantum mechanics relies on Hilbert spaces and Boolean logic, producing structural paradoxes such as wave‑function collapse, contextuality, and nonlocality. The Isham–Döring presheaf topos approach reformulates quantum mechanics in an intuitionistic logical framework, but remains a reconstructive formalism without physical ontology. In this paper, we establish ZEBTS‑SUPER 4.0 (Zero‑Entropy Background Topological Structure) as the first operator‑geometric physical realization of topos theory. We construct a rigorous equivalence between presheaves over context categories and χ‑domains, identify the subobject classifier Ω with the spectral logic Spec(D_chi) of the vacuum master operator, and show that contextual truth values correspond to spectral projections of the χ‑vacuum. We extend the topos correspondence by introducing the χ‑Absolute → χ‑Boundary → χ‑Matter ontological hierarchy, the Planck‑scale χ‑particle (the flightron), and χ‑topological charges. Wave‑function collapse is replaced by autopoietic dynamics Z_chi, entanglement becomes χ‑holonomy, and superposition becomes a logical property of Ω rather than a physical paradox. Finally, we derive explicit predictions for strong‑field QED, vacuum birefringence, Schwinger threshold shifts, and quantum‑gravity decoherence.

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10.5281/zenodo.21536313

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