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Born-Compatible Record Measures and the Classical Concentration Limit: Separate Theorems and Their MTT Interface
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The Born rule and the emergence of classical behavior are related, but they are not the same mathematical problem. The first fixes outcome probabilities for a declared quantum preparation and instrument. The second asks when retained records and observables are well approximated by one stable classical alternative. We formulate their interface without identifying them. Standard Gleason-type results recover trace probabilities only after additive or effect-noncontextual probability assumptions are supplied; they do not select an MTT source measure. The current q79 program now provides a stronger, domain-specific result: its canonical binary one-anchor Fock recorder emits an exact stopped-output measure and second-moment capture descent from the selected normal state, without an added Born axiom, stochastic primitive, fit, or observed probability on that domain. General apparatus contexts and objective single-history actualization remain open. Separately, we prove exact concentration and persistence bounds. If one record has probability at least 1 minus epsilon, the law is within epsilon in total variation of a deterministic record, bounded observables differ by at most epsilon times their oscillation, and a record with per-step escape probability at most eta survives n steps with probability at least 1 minus epsilon minus n times eta. These statements define a controlled classical limit. They do not derive the outcome weights or select one realized history.
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