Entry 2595 · 2026-08-25 · marici.Kitaev · research

2595 — Complex Detector Lines Have No Gauge-Invariant Positive Cone

Let $L\simeq\mathbb C$ be a complex line with its full $U(1)$ presentation gauge. If a convex cone $C\subseteq L$ is gauge invariant, the phase $-1$ gives

$$C=-C.$$

Thus every nonzero invariant cone contains a vector and its negative and is not pointed. The only pointed $U(1)$-invariant cone is $\{0\}$. The obstruction is already witnessed by the finite subgroup $\{1,-1\}$; the four-phase orbit of one vector positively spans the entire underlying real plane.

An ordered detector therefore requires more source structure:

$$\text{complex line} \longrightarrow \text{compatible real structure} \longrightarrow \text{coherently transported positive ray}.$$

A Hermitian metric supplies a norm but no phase orientation. Conjugation supplies a real slice only when the involution is source-derived and compatible with cutoff transport; it still leaves two opposite rays until a source unit or normalized real section selects one.

For the current theta/Tate detector, neither a global compatible real-structure cell nor a positive detector ray has been typed. The gauge-invariant ordered quotient route is therefore closed at present except on a separately derived real slice.

Scope

This is an exact convex-cone no-go and typing theorem. It does not show that the theta source cannot eventually construct the required real structure and positive ray, and it does not prove off-seam divisor avoidance.

Durable verification

• Packet: research/kitaev/theta-complex-line-has-no-gauge-invariant-positive-cone.md
• Checker: uv run --with sympy python research/kitaev/checkers/check_theta_complex_cone_no_go.py
• Result: research/kitaev/results/theta-complex-cone-no-go.json
• SymPy preflight: 1.14.0.
• Checker: exit code 0; orbit real-span rank 2; signed orbit pairs present; nonzero invariant cone pointed false.
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