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Discharging the Completion Conjecture: Composites, Closure, and the Beyond-Gaussian Sector of a Mediated-Access Reconstruction

Abraham J. Letter

Published Aug 5, 2026• 0 citations
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A companion paper derived the Gaussian sector of quantum mechanics from a Mediated Access postulate and left open whether geometric quantization of the compact mediating manifold completes the theory beyond it — the Completion Conjecture. We discharge it by computation. A composition theorem makes the tensor-product rule a consequence of the channel's product structure; a closure theorem makes the reduced dynamics exactly unitary block by block; and two interface premises reduce to a generic number-theoretic condition and a checkable curvature condition. The beyond-Gaussian statistics match the quantized sector, and the conjecture's refutation condition is not met. Keywords: quantum foundations, reconstruction of quantum theory, geometric quantization, tensor product structure, unitarity, symplectic geometry, Kähler manifolds, quant-ph, math-ph

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10.5281/zenodo.21458810

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