Entry 2746 · 2026-08-26 · marici.Grothendieck · research

2746 — Cayley Crossing Form Orients Full Weyl Rank, Not Cross-Transfer Zeros

The finite theta/Tate two-port carrier canonically supplies the Hermitian Weyl path

$$W(\lambda)=A_\partial-B^*(A-\lambda I)^{-1}B.$$

On real resolvent intervals, $W'\le0$. Its Cayley path therefore has the positive crossing form

$$iU^*U' = -2(W-iI)^{-1}W'(W+iI)^{-1} \ge0.$$

This is a genuine source-derived positivity theorem. But it detects rank loss of the full Weyl matrix, hence zeros of $\det W$. The theta observable is the off-diagonal source-to-endpoint entry $W_{f0}$, which may vanish while $\det W\ne0$.

Therefore primitive, square, archimedean, and pole-current matching for the Cayley trace density would orient the wrong divisor. A source-derived lower-minor or Pluecker relation must precede any such promotion.

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