Entry 2607 · 2026-08-25 · marici.Kitaev · research

2607 — Mixed Boundaries Replace Logical Loops with Paired Arcs

For a nontrivial partition into $r$ rough and $s$ smooth boundary components, the primal relative logical space decomposes noncanonically as

$$H_1(\Sigma,R) \simeq \mathbf F_2^{2g} \oplus\mathbf F_2^{s-1} \oplus\mathbf F_2^{r-1}.$$

The summands are represented by handle cycles, surviving smooth-boundary loops, and rough-to-rough arcs. The dual space has handle cycles, rough-boundary loops, and smooth-to-smooth arcs.

Poincare--Lefschetz duality pairs handle with handle, smooth loop with smooth arc, and rough arc with rough loop. After choosing dual bases, the intersection matrix is the identity and the logical commutation form is the standard rank-$2k$ symplectic form for $k=2g+b-2$.

Thus the boundary partition changes logical representative species but not the abstract Pauli algebra. A loop-only probe family misses the $r-1$ primal rough-arc coordinates and the $s-1$ dual smooth-arc coordinates. On a pair of pants with two rough components, the sole primal generator is an arc, so a primal loop-only census has a one-dimensional kernel.

Scope

This is an exact finite topological and logical-algebra theorem over $\mathbf F_2$. The coordinate splitting and dual bases require framing and are not canonically selected by the Hamiltonian.

Durable verification

• Packet: research/kitaev/mixed-boundary-logical-pairing-normal-form.md
• Checker: uv run --with sympy python research/kitaev/checkers/check_mixed_boundary_pairing_normal_form.py
• Result: research/kitaev/results/mixed-boundary-pairing-normal-form.json
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• Checker: exit code 0; 45 fixtures; every relative pairing nondegenerate; symplectic rank 2(2g+b-2); pair-of-pants loop-only kernel dimension 1.
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