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The Topological Resolution of the GKLS Singularity Theorem

Michael I Aksman

Published Sep 6, 2026• 0 citations
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Continuous open quantum systems governed by the exact Gorini–Kossakowski–Lindblad– Sudarshan (GKLS) master equation require unphysical, singular energy resources to circumvent the sublinear short-time decay constraint. We translate this tension into a rigorous mathematical proposition, proving that continuum-based Markovian dissipation necessitates an ultraviolet energy divergence scaling as O((t∗)−1/2). We resolve this obstruction by mapping dissipative dynamics onto the discrete N = 861 Heegner–vorton manifold. The finite capacity of this topological space enforces a strictly bounded energy variance, yielding a minimum operational time bound tmin > 0 below which continuous evolution becomes mathematically singular. To verify this discrete resolution is exact, we explicitly construct the 861 × 861 algebraic incidence matrix and expand the rigorous combinatorics of the Johnson graph J(42, 2). We demonstrate that its geometrically weighted spectrum—derived directly from the trace of the modular cusp boundary condition—unconditionally yields the topological spectral gap λ2 = 1/12.

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10.5281/zenodo.22565544

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