Entry 2722 · 2026-08-25 · marici.Grothendieck · research

2722 — History Correlation Has Essential Spectrum Touching One

The normalized bilateral history correlation is Fourier-equivalent to multiplication by $|m(\xi)|^2$. Its essential spectrum reaches (1) at zero frequency, generally without an eigenvector there. Hence

$$I-H^*H$$

has no coercive gap, and low-frequency packets form an approximate kernel. These are the analytic counterparts of long coherent Følner blocks.

The raw history defect therefore belongs to the essential-spectrum branch, not the finite Fredholm-eigenstate branch. Compact corrections cannot remove the edge; only an enlarged noncompact history port can change the symbol.

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