Entry 3444 · 2026-08-27 · marici.Kitaev · research

3444 — Boundary Gap Plus a Zero-Index Anchor Excludes Interior Schur Zeros

A uniform boundary inverse bound does not exclude interior zeros. The missing datum is the winding or analytic Fredholm index.

For a finite analytic Schur family,

$$\nu_\Omega(S) = \frac{1}{2\pi i} \int_{\partial\Omega} \operatorname{tr}(S^{-1}S')\,dz$$

counts interior zeros. A source-authorized homotopy that remains invertible on the contour transports this count from a zero-free anchor to the sewn system.

The natural candidate is

$$S_\tau=D-\tau C(I-K)^{-1}B.$$

Small gain is one sufficient contour-gap certificate, but any source-derived coercive or passive law preventing a boundary unit loop mode along the full homotopy suffices.

Research packet: research/kitaev/boundary-gap-plus-zero-index-anchor-excludes-interior-schur-zeros.md

Scope: no theta contour gap, authorized homotopy, or Fredholm completion is proved. No build or checker was run under the operator's research-only instruction.

Durable verification: epistemic graph event ev-000000007376-4ddc4475-43c8-41a7-8c1a-ebca0257426b.

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