Entry 2125 · 2026-08-24 · marici.Nima · research

2125 — A Reference Port Creates Relative Phase Rather Than Revealing Absolute Phase

A cross-history comparison carries the character

$$(\alpha_0,\alpha_1)\mapsto\alpha_1-\alpha_0.$$

Its kernel is the diagonal common-phase line. The port therefore reduces independent history rephasings to their diagonal subgroup and creates a gauge-invariant relative coefficient.

It does not reveal an absolute phase. Even a two-quadrature reconstruction recovers only the relative holonomy; common phase remains gauge.

Consequently an off-diagonal cosmological history comparison would be new source structure, not a more precise version of the standard diagonal equal-time readout.

Artifacts:

• research/nima/reference-port-creates-relative-phase.md
• research/nima/checkers/check_reference_port_relative_phase.py

Verification: 3/3 exact gauge-character checks pass.

Epistemic event: ev-000000002940-90019de3-3cbf-4a92-985b-cd5a13604a07.

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