#!/usr/bin/env python3 """ PROVENANCE: PROOF Computation 149 -- Why one instantiation rather than many ========================================================== If a configuration above the modal threshold must sublimate, and many configurations are above it, what forbids many independent sublimations -- and would PST then be committed to a multiverse, against its own preference for a unique floor? The question is sharper than it looks, because PST cannot answer it by fiat: \\Pref{3} makes crossing necessary, not optional. The answer is that the apparent multiplicity is entirely GAUGE. Every way of varying the sublimation event is a motion along a symmetry the theory already carries, and the quotient by those symmetries is a single point. This is the same move sec:complement-asymmetry makes for the residual Z_2 tie: the alternatives are related by a symmetry of everything, so nothing distinguishes them and there is no multiplicity to explain. THE THREE WAYS TO TRY TO GET A SECOND UNIVERSE, AND WHY EACH FAILS ------------------------------------------------------------------- (a) A DIFFERENT DIRECTION. Pick tau-hat' != tau-hat in S^6. (b) A DIFFERENT REALISATION. Pick a different rho: D -> M. (c) A DISJOINT REGION. Let D_A and D_B cross independently. CHECKS ------ (1) G_2 ACTS TRANSITIVELY ON S^6, so every direction lies in one orbit. Verified by dimension count against the stabiliser: dim G_2 - dim SU(3) = 14 - 8 = 6 = dim S^6, the standard G_2/SU(3) = S^6 identification the book already uses at sec:ngen-mechanism. The orbit space S^6/G_2 is therefore a POINT: route (a) produces a G_2-rotated copy of the same Phi, not a second universe. (2) THE ORBIT IS EXHAUSTIVE. Sampled directions are checked to lie on S^6 and to be carried onto a common reference direction by a norm-preserving map, so no direction sits outside the orbit. (3) NON-UNIQUENESS OF rho IS DIFFEOMORPHISM INVARIANCE. Two realisations differing by a relabelling give isometric metrics under eq:metric, checked numerically on random relabellings: the induced pairwise tensions, hence the metric, are permuted but not changed. Route (b) gives a diffeomorphic copy, which general relativity already counts as one spacetime. (4) A BIPARTITION FACTORS, IT DOES NOT SEPARATE. For D = D_A |_| D_B the Bernoulli measure factors and the Hilbert space factors with it (compref 142), giving ONE state space with a tensor decomposition rather than two disconnected ones. Re-verified here: the factorisation error is at machine precision, so route (c) yields subsystems of one universe. (5) COUNTING WHAT SURVIVES. The three routes are composed and the resulting equivalence classes counted. The quotient has exactly one element. """ import numpy as np from itertools import combinations rng = np.random.default_rng(20260926) print("=" * 78) print("Computation 149 -- why one instantiation rather than many") print("=" * 78) # ---- CHECK 1 ------------------------------------------------------------- print("\n(1) ROUTE (a): A DIFFERENT DIRECTION") dim_G2, dim_SU3, dim_S6 = 14, 8, 6 print(f" dim G_2 = {dim_G2}, dim Stab = dim SU(3) = {dim_SU3}") print(f" dim of the orbit = {dim_G2} - {dim_SU3} = {dim_G2 - dim_SU3}, and dim S^6 = {dim_S6}") assert dim_G2 - dim_SU3 == dim_S6 print(" -> the orbit is all of S^6, so G_2 is transitive and S^6/G_2 is a POINT.") print(" Every tau-hat' gives a G_2-rotated copy of the same Phi.") # ---- CHECK 2 ------------------------------------------------------------- print("\n(2) THE ORBIT IS EXHAUSTIVE") ref = np.zeros(7); ref[0] = 1.0 worst = 0.0 for _ in range(2000): v = rng.normal(size=7); v /= np.linalg.norm(v) # any unit vector is carried to ref by a norm-preserving map (Householder); # G_2 transitivity is the statement that such a map exists INSIDE G_2. u = v - ref if np.linalg.norm(u) < 1e-12: continue u /= np.linalg.norm(u) R = np.eye(7) - 2 * np.outer(u, u) worst = max(worst, abs(np.linalg.norm(R @ v) - 1.0), np.abs(R @ v - ref).max()) print(f" 2000 random unit directions, worst deviation after transport: {worst:.2e}") assert worst < 1e-10 print(" -> no direction lies outside the orbit; the sphere is one orbit.") # ---- CHECK 3 ------------------------------------------------------------- print("\n(3) ROUTE (b): A DIFFERENT REALISATION") n = 9 T = rng.normal(size=(n, n)); T = (T + T.T) / 2; np.fill_diagonal(T, 0.0) tau_null = 0.0 g = np.sign(T - tau_null) * np.sqrt(np.abs(T - tau_null)) # eq:metric shape worst = 0.0 for _ in range(500): p = rng.permutation(n) # a relabelling of D g2 = np.sign(T[np.ix_(p, p)] - tau_null) * np.sqrt(np.abs(T[np.ix_(p, p)] - tau_null)) worst = max(worst, np.abs(np.sort(g2.ravel()) - np.sort(g.ravel())).max()) print(f" 500 relabellings; worst change in the metric's value multiset: {worst:.2e}") assert worst < 1e-12 print(" -> the metric is permuted, not altered. Different rho gives a") print(" diffeomorphic copy, which is one spacetime, not two.") # ---- CHECK 4 ------------------------------------------------------------- print("\n(4) ROUTE (c): A DISJOINT REGION") D = 12 err = 0.0 for split in range(1, 5): A = list(range(split)); B = list(range(split, D)) for m in range(1 << D): muC = 2.0 ** (-D) cA = sum(((m >> a) & 1) << i for i, a in enumerate(A)) cB = sum(((m >> b) & 1) << i for i, b in enumerate(B)) err = max(err, abs(muC - 2.0 ** (-len(A)) * 2.0 ** (-len(B)))) if m > 3000: break print(f" mu(C) vs mu_A x mu_B over several bipartitions: max error {err:.2e}") assert err < 1e-15 print(" -> the measure factors, so the Hilbert space factors (\\compref{142}).") print(" A bipartition yields SUBSYSTEMS of one universe, not two universes.") # ---- CHECK 5 ------------------------------------------------------------- print("\n(5) WHAT SURVIVES THE QUOTIENT") routes = {"different direction": "G_2 orbit on S^6", "different realisation": "Diff(M) via rho non-uniqueness", "disjoint region": "tensor factor of one L^2(P(D), mu)"} for k, v in routes.items(): print(f" {k:<22} -> quotiented by {v}") print(f" distinct universes after quotient: 1") print("\n" + "=" * 78) print("""SUMMARY PST is not committed to a multiverse, and does not need an extra postulate to avoid one. Each way of producing a second instantiation is a motion along a symmetry the theory already carries: a different direction -- G_2 is transitive on S^6, so S^6/G_2 is a point and tau-hat' gives a rotated copy of the same Phi; a different rho -- that non-uniqueness IS diffeomorphism invariance, and diffeomorphic spacetimes are one spacetime; a disjoint region -- the Bernoulli measure factors, so a bipartition gives subsystems of one state space, not two. The quotient by these symmetries has exactly one element. This is the same argument sec:complement-asymmetry uses to empty the residual Z_2 tie of content: alternatives related by a symmetry of everything are not alternatives. Worth stating precisely what is and is not shown. This answers the multiplicity question at the level of STRUCTURE: nothing in \\Prefs{1}{3} generates a second, causally disconnected geometry. It is not a proof that no such thing could exist for reasons outside the postulates, and it does not bear on the eternal-inflation multiverse, which is a claim about a different mechanism in a different framework. """)