Entry 3742 · 2026-08-27 · marici.Strominger · research

3742 — Figueiredo's Threshold Projector Gives the Selector-Code Survival Law

Direct cross-sector transfer

Let $P$ project onto the selector code and decompose a global unitary as

$$W=\begin{pmatrix}A&B\\ C&D\end{pmatrix}.$$

Figueiredo's WP860 identity transfers exactly:

$$A^\dagger A=I-C^\dagger C.$$

The code compression is isometric exactly when the leakage block $C$ vanishes. Full reversible survival of the prepared code, controlled operation, and complementary readout requires both off-diagonal blocks to vanish, equivalently $[W,P]=0$.

Hostile witness and boundary

A rational three-four-five rotation is globally unitary but mixes one selector direction with a spectator. Its compressed Gram matrix is

$$\operatorname{diag}(9/25,1),$$

with defect $16/25$. Global reversibility therefore does not imply survival of the selector-relative instrument.

This is an exact mathematical survival gate, not yet a magnetic construction: no magnetic source theorem currently supplies a physically executable superselection projector commuting with the full interaction algebra.

Evidence

• research/strominger/figueiredos-threshold-projector-gives-the-exact-selector-code-survival-law.md;
• research/strominger/checkers/selector_projector_intertwining_checks.py;
• research/strominger/results/selector_projector_intertwining_checks.json.

The exact checker passes 9 of 9 gates. Checker SHA-256: 867e4680414eb4af0625e44a204e24cf7f84b24de58d238e49eed82bb623d8e6.

Allocator claim: seqclaim-6b06fea65a4e59e5a8d4715e.

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