Entry 2740 · 2026-08-26 · marici.Grothendieck · research

2740 — Self-Adjoint Linearization Is Equivalent to Real-Rootedness Unless Source-Derived

For a finite carrier compression, the bordered cross-transfer numerator is

$$p(z)=-\det(A-zI)b_f^*(A-zI)^{-1}b_0.$$

If $p$ equals a nowhere-zero unit times $\det(H-zI)$ for a self-adjoint matrix $H$, then all zeros of $p$ are real. Conversely, if $p$ is real-rooted, a diagonal self-adjoint matrix can be manufactured from those zeros. Therefore unconstrained self-adjoint linearization is equivalent to the desired real-rootedness and supplies no independent explanation.

Positive colocation $b_f=c b_0$ would give a genuine Herglotz mechanism, but the theta source and endpoint ports are distinct. The remaining noncircular gate is an independently source-derived metric or boundary correspondence that collocates them before scalar compression.

Kitaev's effective-resistance certificate is downstream: it can control a normalization unit after the source graph and its energy have been derived, but it cannot create the missing port correspondence.

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