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The Metric Origin of Records: Engagement, Destination, and the Geometry of the Sieve

Abraham J. Letter

Published Aug 5, 2026• 0 citations
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In the mediated-access programme a sieve decides which imprints become persistent records. We show the sieve's destination rule is not an extra postulate but descends from the symplectic structure the fiber metric already supplies. A single Kaluza–Klein metric object yields gauge, gravitational, and engagement couplings at once, and Hamilton's equations then orient the flows — a system writes cell invariants while cell angles are read back only as system phases. In the quantum theory a charge-n quantum shifts the mode label by exactly n, and that record is simultaneously the which-path decoherence. Keywords: Kaluza–Klein theory, decoherence, pointer states, quantum measurement, symplectic geometry, holonomy, equivalence principle, quantum Darwinism, hep-th, quant-ph

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10.5281/zenodo.21535558

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