Published October 27, 2026
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Canonical Fourier Filtration and the Obstruction to a Spatial Continuum Limit
Description
On a supplied Heisenberg carrier, the admissible fibre carries the
Heisenberg–Schrödinger representation of ${\mathrm{Heis}_3}({\mathbb{Z}}/q{\mathbb{Z}})$ at a fixed non-trivial central
character — not the associated Weil action of the symplectic automorphism group, which is a
further representation and is not used here — and the companion
Foundation paper defines the
canonical filtration of the fibre as the orbit spans
$\Omega_n = \mathrm{span}\{\rho(g)v_0: g \in B_n\}$ over breadth-first balls of the Cayley graph.
This paper identifies that filtration exactly and determines what it does and does not converge to.
Three results are established.
First, an exact identification: with the pipeline's initial vector, $\Omega_n$ is precisely the
toric Fourier window $\mathrm{span}\{e^{2\pi i b x/q}: |b| \le n\}$, of dimension $\min(2n+1, q)$;
every fixed toric mode is captured once the published saturation depth $n_1(q)$ exceeds its index,
while balanced (line-scale) profiles are rejected at all measured primes.
Second, the published admissibility form converges to the zero form on this filtration, uniformly on
norm-bounded sets, at rate $q^{-2}$.
Third, a normalisation no-go: if the saturation depth diverges and the modulation and translation
weights both remain positive and of order one — as the pipeline data indicate — then no common
scalar normalisation of the form
produces a non-trivial finite toric differential operator: preserving the derivative sector makes
the modulation sector diverge, and preserving the modulation sector eliminates the derivative.
The only non-trivial rescaled limit is a conditional Dirichlet operator in the rescaled frequency
variable on the window itself, which does not provide a spatial continuum.
Question Q5 of the Foundation programme therefore remains open, and the downstream identification of
a flat spatial co-metric from a limit operator $-A\partial_x^2$ on $L^2({\mathbb{R}})$ rests on an input that
is not established here.
Interpretive status.
The structural reading is that admissibility, as published, organises the fibre by frequency rather
than by position: the emergent object is a growing Fourier window, not a discretised spatial line.
Whether a spatial continuum can emerge from this structure is exactly the open content of Q5.
Notes
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q5a.pdf
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Related works
- Is supplemented by
- Other: https://cosmochrony.org/science/emergent-geometry/q5/a/ (URL)