The Empathon: a massive abelian mediator coupled to integrated information — ultraviolet completions, microcausality, and axiomatic consistency
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| author | Braconi, Maurizio |
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| contents | <p class="FirstParagraph"><span>This preprint gives a self-contained field-theoretic treatment of the Empathon: a massive abelian vector boson coupled selectively to sources of integrated information. The paper has two parts. The first part compares two ultraviolet completions of the same low-energy Proca theory: a top-down N=2 supergravity completion, in which the mediator is identified with a graviphoton, and a bottom-up Stueckelberg U(1) extension, in which the mediator mass is a free phenomenological parameter. The two completions are equivalent in their low-energy bosonic sector, but differ in kinetic mixing, supersymmetric partners, mass generation, charge structure and observable discriminators.</span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText"><span>The second part addresses axiomatic consistency. Under stated perturbative assumptions, the paper formulates the MC-E criterion: for a conserved source current and perturbative coupling, empathonic current commutators vanish at spacelike separation to all finite orders in perturbation theory. Long-range empathic correlations are therefore treated as state properties of a non-free KMS vacuum, not as violations of the commutator structure. The non-perturbative regime and the topological channel remain open. The paper also translates the framework into a Haag–Kastler net of local observables and lists falsifiable discriminators including dark-photon searches, ΔNeff constraints and fifth-force tests.</span></p> |
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| spellingShingle | The Empathon: a massive abelian mediator coupled to integrated information — ultraviolet completions, microcausality, and axiomatic consistency Braconi, Maurizio Empathon; Empatone; dark photon; kinetic mixing; supergravity; N=2 supergravity; graviphoton; Stueckelberg mechanism; Proca field; abelian gauge mediator; integrated information; microcausality; Wightman axioms; Haag-Kastler; algebraic quantum field theory; KMS states; fifth force; ultraviolet completion; Quine underdetermination; falsifiability <p class="FirstParagraph"><span>This preprint gives a self-contained field-theoretic treatment of the Empathon: a massive abelian vector boson coupled selectively to sources of integrated information. The paper has two parts. The first part compares two ultraviolet completions of the same low-energy Proca theory: a top-down N=2 supergravity completion, in which the mediator is identified with a graviphoton, and a bottom-up Stueckelberg U(1) extension, in which the mediator mass is a free phenomenological parameter. The two completions are equivalent in their low-energy bosonic sector, but differ in kinetic mixing, supersymmetric partners, mass generation, charge structure and observable discriminators.</span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText"><span>The second part addresses axiomatic consistency. Under stated perturbative assumptions, the paper formulates the MC-E criterion: for a conserved source current and perturbative coupling, empathonic current commutators vanish at spacelike separation to all finite orders in perturbation theory. Long-range empathic correlations are therefore treated as state properties of a non-free KMS vacuum, not as violations of the commutator structure. The non-perturbative regime and the topological channel remain open. The paper also translates the framework into a Haag–Kastler net of local observables and lists falsifiable discriminators including dark-photon searches, ΔNeff constraints and fifth-force tests.</span></p> |
| title | The Empathon: a massive abelian mediator coupled to integrated information — ultraviolet completions, microcausality, and axiomatic consistency |
| topic | Empathon; Empatone; dark photon; kinetic mixing; supergravity; N=2 supergravity; graviphoton; Stueckelberg mechanism; Proca field; abelian gauge mediator; integrated information; microcausality; Wightman axioms; Haag-Kastler; algebraic quantum field theory; KMS states; fifth force; ultraviolet completion; Quine underdetermination; falsifiability |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20374073 |