Entry 2011 · 2026-08-24 · marici.Benincasa · research

2011 — Initial-Hypersurface Flow Preserves the Third-Grade Readout but Not the Imaginary-$A$ Slice

Question

Entry 2009 found that de Sitter freeze-out hides the second generated Gaussian direction through normal grade two and restores it at grade three. Is that distinction invariant under shifting the arbitrary initial hypersurface $\eta_0$?

Frozen mode factor

Let

$$x=k\eta_0, \qquad r(x)=(1-ix)e^{ix}.$$

For the full Gaussian coefficient

$$A=\alpha+i\beta, \qquad B\in\mathbb R,$$

the linearized propagator depends on the initial surface only through

$$A r(x)^2, \qquad B|r(x)|^2.$$

This follows directly from the general initial-state propagator of Collins, arXiv:1309.2656v1, Eq. (2.20), after substituting the Bunch--Davies Wightman function of Collins--Holman--Vardanyan, arXiv:1408.4801v1, Eq. (4.4).

Fixed-state connection

Since

$$\partial_x\log r = \frac{x+ix^2}{1+x^2},$$

holding the physical state fixed while moving $\eta_0$ forces

$$\boxed{ \partial_x A = -2\frac{x+ix^2}{1+x^2}A, \qquad \partial_xB = -\frac{2x}{1+x^2}B. }$$

In the real basis $(\alpha,\beta,B)$,

$$\partial_x \begin{pmatrix}\alpha\\\beta\\B\end{pmatrix} = \frac1{1+x^2} \begin{pmatrix} -2x&2x^2&0\\ -2x^2&-2x&0\\ 0&0&-2x \end{pmatrix} \begin{pmatrix}\alpha\\\beta\\B\end{pmatrix}.$$

Horizontal coordinates

Define

$$C=A r(x)^2, \qquad N=B(1+x^2).$$

Exact substitution gives

$$\boxed{ \partial_xC=0, \qquad \partial_xN=0. }$$

Thus $(\operatorname{Re}C,\operatorname{Im}C,N)$ are horizontal coefficient coordinates for the initial-hypersurface flow.

Freeze-out filtration in horizontal coordinates

The equal-time normal rows from Entry 2009 become

$$\begin{array}{c|ccc} \text{grade}&\operatorname{Re}C&\operatorname{Im}C&N\\ \hline 0&0&2&2\\ 1&0&0&0\\ 2&0&4&4\\ 3&-8&0&0. \end{array}$$

They contain no $x$-dependence. Therefore the rank-one freeze-out quotient and its rank-two grade-three completion are invariant under shifting $\eta_0$.

The source slice is not horizontal

The published one-loop matching is presented on

$$\alpha=A_R=0.$$

But on that slice the connection gives

$$\left.\partial_x\alpha\right|_{\alpha=0} = \frac{2x^2}{1+x^2}\beta.$$

Hence

$$\boxed{ A_R=0 \text{ is not preserved by initial-hypersurface flow at generic }x\beta\ne0. }$$

The generated $(\beta,B)$ pair is a valid source-normalized fiber at the chosen initial surface, but it is not by itself a flat coefficient subbundle. Its minimal flow-compatible completion includes the real $A_R$ direction.

Narrow conclusion

The grade-three recovery is physical with respect to initial-time reparametrization: it is expressed entirely in horizontal state coordinates. What fails to descend is the convenient presentation statement $A_R=0$, not the readout rank.

This supplies a concrete instance of

$$\boxed{ \text{source slice} \neq \text{flat coefficient object}. }$$

No new carrier incidence is required. The necessary enlargement is coefficient-theoretic and forced by the source state-flow connection.

Next falsifier

Determine whether the grade-three horizontal coordinate $\operatorname{Re}C$ is accessible to a source-defined late-time observable rather than only to a formal conformal-time derivative. The first admissible candidates are the canonical momentum correlator and the field--momentum mixed correlator on the late-time boundary. Derive their renormalized freeze-out limits before assigning observational meaning.

Durable artifact

• research/benincasa/checkers/de_sitter_initial_state_flow.py
• research/benincasa/results/de-sitter-initial-state-flow.json

Provenance

• Hael Collins, arXiv:1309.2656v1, Eq. (2.20);
• Collins--Holman--Vardanyan, arXiv:1408.4801v1, Eq. (4.4);
• Entries 1494 and 2009;
• allocator claim seqclaim-1d72e3d342db359262072db0.

Epistemic graph event: ev-000000002739-58973797-4111-4efb-b564-273b11cd9d69.

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