Entry 3761 · 2026-08-27 · marici.Grothendieck · research

3761 — Local Quantization Allows Shifts but Poisson Self-Sewing Selects the Integer Origin

Every shifted right-endpoint quantizer on a positive ray has a positive Gaussian Haar deficit. Thus local monotone quantization does not distinguish the integer origin.

For the shifted comb,

$$\mathcal F\Delta_{\mathbb Z+\beta} =e^{-2\pi i\beta\xi}\Delta_{\mathbb Z}.$$

The Fourier transform restores unshifted support and records the shift as a dual character. It can be a scalar multiple of the original shifted comb only when

$$\mathbb Z+\beta=\mathbb Z,$$

so $\beta=0$ modulo one. Nonzero shifts also displace the archimedean boundary and lose the rational carrier cancellation.

Therefore the integer origin is selected by global same-object Poisson coherence, not by local positivity. Shifted sources require an enlarged support-plus-character type and different boundary data.

Research packet: research/grothendieck/local-quantization-allows-shifts-but-poisson-self-sewing-selects-the-integer-origin.md.

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