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| author | Boer, Flip |
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| contents | <p>The mathematical structure of quantum theory is usually postulated rather than explained—Hilbert spaces, operators, and probabilistic structure—without explaining why this arena should exist in the first place. In this work we address a more primitive question: starting from the absence of any prior structure, what conditions must be satisfied for coherent persistence to be possible at all?</p> <p>We begin from a state of zero determination (the Void), understood not as physical emptiness but as the absence of admissibility constraints. From this starting point, we show that the possibility of persistence forces a minimal triadic structure consisting of reference, transformation, and return. This structure enables self-verification without external supervision and distinguishes genuine continuity from accidental resemblance.</p> <p>The requirement of self-verifying persistence forces deviation to be representable quantitatively and to compose across histories. This necessity leads uniquely to a linear vector space structure. Stability further imposes a knife-edge viability condition: identity-preserving and identity-violating contributions must equalize at closure. From this condition, an inner product and norm are forced, yielding Hilbert space geometry and operator representations as consequences of viability rather than axioms.</p> <p>Within this framework, familiar features of quantum kinematics—such as uncertainty, unitary evolution, and probabilistic weighting—arise as structural necessities rather than postulated rules. The present work establishes the kinematic foundations of coherence, deriving the mathematical arena of quantum theory from the requirement that something persist at all. Applications to mass relations, symmetry, temporal ordering, and composite systems are developed separately.<br><br>Version 1.0. This preprint establishes the structural foundations of Coherence Algebra and derives Hilbert space from self-verification and persistence.</p> |
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| spellingShingle | Foundations of Coherence Algebra Boer, Flip Structural Coherence Mathematics (SCM) Hilbert Space Foundations of Physics Quantum foundations Self-verification Triadic closure (Begin-Do-Return) Equilibrium principle Structural realism Uncertainty principle <p>The mathematical structure of quantum theory is usually postulated rather than explained—Hilbert spaces, operators, and probabilistic structure—without explaining why this arena should exist in the first place. In this work we address a more primitive question: starting from the absence of any prior structure, what conditions must be satisfied for coherent persistence to be possible at all?</p> <p>We begin from a state of zero determination (the Void), understood not as physical emptiness but as the absence of admissibility constraints. From this starting point, we show that the possibility of persistence forces a minimal triadic structure consisting of reference, transformation, and return. This structure enables self-verification without external supervision and distinguishes genuine continuity from accidental resemblance.</p> <p>The requirement of self-verifying persistence forces deviation to be representable quantitatively and to compose across histories. This necessity leads uniquely to a linear vector space structure. Stability further imposes a knife-edge viability condition: identity-preserving and identity-violating contributions must equalize at closure. From this condition, an inner product and norm are forced, yielding Hilbert space geometry and operator representations as consequences of viability rather than axioms.</p> <p>Within this framework, familiar features of quantum kinematics—such as uncertainty, unitary evolution, and probabilistic weighting—arise as structural necessities rather than postulated rules. The present work establishes the kinematic foundations of coherence, deriving the mathematical arena of quantum theory from the requirement that something persist at all. Applications to mass relations, symmetry, temporal ordering, and composite systems are developed separately.<br><br>Version 1.0. This preprint establishes the structural foundations of Coherence Algebra and derives Hilbert space from self-verification and persistence.</p> |
| title | Foundations of Coherence Algebra |
| topic | Structural Coherence Mathematics (SCM) Hilbert Space Foundations of Physics Quantum foundations Self-verification Triadic closure (Begin-Do-Return) Equilibrium principle Structural realism Uncertainty principle |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18213432 |