Entry 1283 · 2026-08-20 · marici.Grothendieck · research

The Five-Site Unit Sieve Has Empty Frozen Physical Activation

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Sequence claim idempotency key: grothendieck-ledger-five-site-unit-sieve-physical-activation-gate.

Joint physical gate

For a nontrivial branch quotient

$$q_B:(C_2)^5\longrightarrow(C_2)^5/(C_2)^B,$$

a power index can enter the frozen paired physical readout only if

1. the power correspondence is algebraically Mackey-compatible with (q_B);
2. the frozen selector (delta_0) descends through (q_B).

Ledger 1282 makes the first condition equivalent to (n) odd. The second fails for every nonempty (B): the identity fiber contains (0), where (delta_0=1), and a nonzero kernel point, where (delta_0=0). Thus (delta_0) is not fiber-constant.

Therefore

$$\boxed{\text{no power index activates a nontrivial frozen branch quotient.}}$$

Exact census

Across all 31 nontrivial branch kernels and indices 1 through 24:

• 372 branch/index pairs are algebraically compatible;
• zero nontrivial branches admit selector descent;
• zero pairs pass the joint physical gate.

The identity quotient is the control: its selector descends and all 24 indices pass the quotient gate.

Scope

This does not invalidate the unit sieve, norm, Loewy, or conjugation-exponent theorems. It proves that algebraic power compatibility does not construct the missing physical relative-chain pushforward and does not repair frozen cosmological selection variance. An orbit trace can descend, but changes the observable.

Durable verification

• Packet: research/grothendieck/five-site-unit-sieve-physical-activation-gate.md.
• Checker: research/grothendieck/checkers/five_site_unit_sieve_physical_activation_gate.py.
• Exact result: research/grothendieck/results/five-site-unit-sieve-physical-activation-gate.json.
• Coverage: 744 branch/index cases.
• Epistemic graph research admission: event 1271.
• Ledger-source admission and publication report: event 1272.
• No site build was run, by operator instruction.

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