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transition probabilities exactly. Energy shifts and the antiunitary
reflection also preserve them; completeness of these alternatives under
the stated gap and overlap hypotheses is conditional on the sign-aware
integer classification H-BG ({[}GR §3.3{]}). Two Hamiltonians \(H\) and
\(D H D^\dagger\) produce identical Born-rule probabilities
\(T_{ij}(t) = |\langle j | e^{-iHt/\hbar} | i \rangle|^2\) in the
measurement basis, so they are operationally indistinguishable. The
transformation rephases the measurement basis, changing off-diagonal
integer classification H-BG ({[}GR §3.3{]}; Appendix B.7). Two
Hamiltonians \(H\) and \(D H D^\dagger\) produce identical Born-rule
probabilities \(T_{ij}(t) = |\langle j | e^{-iHt/\hbar} | i \rangle|^2\)
in the measurement basis, so they are operationally indistinguishable.
The transformation rephases the measurement basis, changing off-diagonal
phases of \(H\) while leaving its diagonal entries and every transition
probability unchanged.

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universal (\(S \iff D \iff Q_{\mathrm{fb}}\), {[}Main §3.4{]}) ---
relies on a chain of intermediate lemmas: partition-relativity, emergent
stochasticity, P-indivisibility from a non-permutation witness,
accessible-timescale backflow, and phase-locking. This appendix collects
these lemmas with their proofs in compact form, providing the reader a
self-contained reference for the framework's logical structure.
accessible-timescale backflow, and phase-locking, together with the
results on which phase-locking rests: Bohr-frequency completeness, the
real-to-integer transfer and the two-branch classification conditional
on H-BG. This appendix collects these lemmas with their proofs in
compact form, providing the reader a self-contained reference for the
framework's logical structure.

The appendix's content is \emph{complete derivations}, not exposition.
Each derivation gives the algebraic steps, the lemmas invoked, and the
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\(|U_{ij}|^2\) invariant. This is the basis-convention freedom --- the
choice of phase for each basis state --- which is physically trivial.
H-BG and the coefficient-labelled exceptional obstruction classify the
possible mode correspondences ({[}GR §3.3{]}); this step is not supplied
by Fourier extraction alone. Conditional on H-BG, the remaining
alternatives are this rephasing freedom, the energy shift and the
antiunitary conjugation \(\hat{H} \to -\hat{H}^*\) stated above.
\(\square\)
possible mode correspondences (Theorem B.7.5c below; {[}GR §3.3{]});
this step is not supplied by Fourier extraction alone. Conditional on
H-BG, the remaining alternatives are this rephasing freedom, the energy
shift and the antiunitary conjugation \(\hat{H} \to -\hat{H}^*\) stated
above. \(\square\)

\emph{Scope.} The lemma is stated in its simplest form,
\(T_{ij}(t) = |U_{ij}(t)|^2\) --- the trivial-ancilla case of the
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\(H \to -H^*\), retained there as an intrinsic ambiguity of transition
data.

\textbf{Bohr frequencies and the D-gauge classification.} The proof of
Lemma B.7.5 rests on the results collected here, each stated with its
hypotheses ({[}GR §3.3{]}). Throughout, \(U(t) = e^{-iHt}\) with \(H\)
in frequency units and \(H = V\,\mathrm{diag}(E)\,V^\dagger\) on a
finite configuration space, so that \(V_{ia}\) is the overlap of
configuration \(i\) with eigenvector \(a\), and likewise
\(H' = W\,\mathrm{diag}(E')\,W^\dagger\); the antiunitary reflection
\(-\bar{H}\) is the \(-\hat{H}^*\) of Lemma B.7.5.

\textbf{Theorem B.7.5a (Bohr-frequency completeness).} \emph{Let
\(U(t) = e^{-iHt}\) with non-degenerate eigenvalues and non-vanishing
configuration-basis overlaps. Then the transition probabilities
determine the Bohr-frequency set \(\{E_a - E_b\}\): each return
probability expands as
\(|U_{ii}(t)|^2 = \sum_{a,b} |V_{ia}|^2 |V_{ib}|^2\, e^{-i(E_a - E_b)t}\),
in which every gap value carries a strictly positive coefficient; every
\(|U_{ij}(t)|^2\) is a combination of the same frequencies; and
consequently any \(U'\) of the same form with
\(|U'_{ij}(t)|^2 = |U_{ij}(t)|^2\) for all \(i, j, t\) has
\(\{E'_a - E'_b\} = \{E_a - E_b\}\).}

\emph{Proof.} Expanding
\(U_{ij}(t) = \sum_a V_{ia}\, e^{-iE_a t}\, V_{ja}^*\) gives
\(|U_{ij}(t)|^2 = \sum_{a,b} V_{ia} V_{ja}^* V_{ib}^* V_{jb}\, e^{-i(E_a - E_b)t}\);
at \(i = j\) the coefficients are \(|V_{ia}|^2 |V_{ib}|^2 > 0\), and
grouping terms by frequency value only adds positive quantities ---
degenerate gaps merge coefficients but cannot cancel them. Distinct
characters \(t \mapsto e^{-i\omega t}\) of \((\mathbb{R}, +)\) are
linearly independent (Dedekind), so equality of two probability families
forces equality of the per-frequency coefficients over the union of the
two gap sets, and positivity makes the supports --- the gap sets ---
coincide. \(\square\)

\textbf{The dimensional obstruction.} Theorem B.7.5a is what the gap
equation of §B.4 consumes, and it is less than a reconstruction of
\(H\). The unitary \(U(t)\) is dimensionless, and \(\hbar\) enters only
through \(\hat{H} = i\hbar\,\partial_t U\, U^\dagger\). The transition
probabilities are dimensionless functions of \(t\) and determine
temporal frequencies; converting a frequency to an energy requires the
action scale \(\hbar\) itself, so no amount of transition data fixes it.
The residual ambiguities in passing from frequencies to a Hamiltonian
carry no scale either: diagonal rephasing \(H \mapsto DHD^\dagger\)
moves no modulus, the energy origin \(H \mapsto H + E_0\) contributes
only the global phase \(e^{-iE_0 t}\), the antiunitary reflection
\(H \mapsto -\bar{H}\) satisfies
\(e^{-i(-\bar{H})t} = \overline{e^{-iHt}}\) entrywise and so preserves
every \(|U_{ij}(t)|^2\) exactly, and Theorem B.7.5c below excludes
further ambiguities conditional on its stated classification hypothesis.
The thermal self-consistency of §B.4, Step 4, is therefore the
mathematically obligatory entry point for the dimensionful input.

\textbf{Lemma B.7.5b (Real-to-integer transfer).} \emph{Let \(E, E'\) be
real spectra on \(n\) modes, each with distinct directed gaps ---
\(E_b - E_a = E_d - E_c\) with \(a \neq b\) and \(c \neq d\) only when
\((a, b) = (c, d)\) --- and with equal gap sets. Then \(E'\) is, after
relabeling its modes, a translate \(E + E_0\) of \(E\) or a translate
\(-E + E_0\) of its reflection; or else there are relabelings of the two
spectra and strictly increasing integer rulers \(F, F'\) on \(n\) marks,
each with distinct positive differences, with equal difference sets, and
neither a translate nor a reflection of the other, such that every
integer gap identity \(F'_d - F'_c = F_b - F_a\) with \(a \neq b\) holds
for the relabeled real spectra as well.}

The lemma assumes no classification hypothesis. It is proved in the
framework's Lean formalization (kernel:
\texttt{real\_to\_integer\_surrogate} in
\texttt{OIBridge/TurnpikeScopeTransfer.lean}), and it is the step
through which a classification of integer rulers, such as H-BG below,
applies to real spectra.

\textbf{Theorem B.7.5c (D-gauge completeness, two-branch form).}
\emph{Assume H-BG: every non-congruent pair of strictly ordered integer
rulers with distinct positive differences and equal difference sets has
six marks and, after relabeling, realizes either \(\mu\) or its global
reversal, where \(\mu\) sends each ascending mark pair of
\(\{0,1,4,10,12,17\}\) to the ascending mark pair of
\(\{0,1,8,11,13,17\}\) with the same difference. The orientation is
chosen once for the whole pair. Let \(H,H'\) act on the same finite
configuration space of dimension \(m\ge3\), with distinct nonzero energy
gaps and non-vanishing configuration-basis overlaps for both
Hamiltonians. If \(|U'_{ij}(t)|^2 = |U_{ij}(t)|^2\) for all \(i,j,t\),
then \(H' = DHD^\dagger + E_0\) or \(H' = -D\bar{H}D^\dagger + E_0\),
for a time-independent diagonal unitary \(D\) and a real \(E_0\).}

\emph{Conditional proof.} Equality of the probability families forces
equality of the per-frequency coefficients of
\(|U_{ij}(t)|^2 = \sum_{a,b} V_{ia} V_{ja}^* V_{ib}^* V_{jb}\, e^{-i(E_a-E_b)t}\).
Under the stated overlap and gap hypotheses, the spectra have equal
difference sets and the coefficient matching induces a bijection of
ordered mode pairs preserving directed gaps. A fixed correspondence can
be transferred from real to integer spectra while preserving its gap
identities, strict order, distinct differences and non-congruence (Lemma
B.7.5b): its realization constraints are homogeneous rational-linear
equalities, strict inequalities and inequations, and rational
approximation in the equality subspace followed by denominator clearing
preserves the finite list of strict conditions. H-BG then supplies a
congruent pair or one of the two globally oriented exceptional
correspondences. For congruent spectra, diagonal-line rigidity fixes the
moduli and the phase-coboundary relation fixes the phases, giving
\(W_{i,\tau a}=d_i\beta_a V_{ia}\) with \(d,\beta\) unimodular. The
column phases cancel in the reconstructed Hamiltonian. Reflection
congruence applies this argument to \((\bar V,-E)\) and gives the second
branch. For the positive exceptional correspondence \(\mu\), the
coefficient identities force flat moduli and constrain the phase data to
a graph of maximum clique three, excluding the six orthogonal rows
required by unitarity. For the reversed correspondence, reversing the
source mode pair conjugates its coefficient tensor; applying the same
obstruction to the conjugated source eigenbasis excludes that
orientation as well. Thus the two Hamiltonian branches follow
conditional on H-BG. \(\square\)

\emph{Scope.} The complete comparison of H-BG with the published integer
classification of Bekir and Golomb {[}A. Bekir and S. W. Golomb, IEEE
Trans. Inform. Theory 53 (2007) 2864--2867{]}, including all
normalizations and exceptional orientations, is open. The unsigned
formal premise \texttt{BGIntegerClassification} of the Lean
formalization is false: the strictly ordered rulers \((0,1,4,10,12,17)\)
and \((0,4,6,9,16,17)\) have distinct positive differences and equal
difference sets, are neither translates nor reflections of one another,
and satisfy the reversed exceptional correspondence while admitting no
relabelings with the required positive orientation. The kernel
implication \texttt{twoBranch\_of\_BGClassification} therefore does not
establish reconstruction from the physical hypotheses. The example
contradicts that formal premise, not the published classification.
Bohr-frequency completeness, the real-to-integer transfer, congruent
reconstruction and the positive six-mode obstruction are kernel-proved
independently of it. The listed ambiguities are exactly invisible:
\(H+E_0\) contributes only a global phase, while \(-\bar H\) conjugates
the propagator entrywise. The gap condition is used where coefficient
matching induces a bijection of ordered mode pairs: with degenerate gaps
one frequency's coefficient is a sum over several mode pairs. The
\(C_4\) ring of {[}SM{]} Proposition 20 has distinct eigenvalues,
uniform overlaps and degenerate gaps; its conjugate \(\bar H\)
reproduces every \(|U_{ij}(t)|^2\) and conjugates the loop product
\(H_{01}H_{12}H_{23}H_{30}\), which no diagonal conjugation changes. The
ring therefore does not exhibit a failure, without the gap condition, of
the two-branch form conditional on H-BG: \(\bar H\) lies in the
reflection branch, \(\bar H = -D_s\bar H D_s^\dagger\) with
\(D_s = \mathrm{diag}(1,-1,1,-1)\). The raw frequency set alone cannot
distinguish the non-congruent homometric rulers; reconstruction uses
coefficient-labelled frequency data.

\textbf{Corollary B.7.5d (Operational antiunitary invariance).}
\emph{Transposing the preparation, every operation, and the effect
simultaneously --- \(\rho \mapsto \rho^T\),
\(\mathcal{G} \mapsto T \circ \mathcal{G} \circ T\), \(E \mapsto E^T\)
--- preserves every finite circuit probability, for arbitrary operations
and arbitrary finite sequences, hence for every fixed outcome branch of
any adaptive instrument strategy; the transformation carries Kraus
operations to Kraus operations with conjugated operators, preserves the
trace normalization, and on unitary evolution is exactly the branch map
\(H \mapsto -\bar{H}\).}

Enlarging the data from transition probabilities to arbitrary
preparations, instruments, adaptive finite circuits, and effects
therefore cannot remove the second branch: at the purely operational
level the two branches are not two empirically distinguishable theories
but two antiunitarily related reconstructions of the same complete
circuit statistics, and they become physically distinct only once an
oriented structure is fixed ({[}GR §3.3{]}). (kernel:
\texttt{circuit\_invariance}, \texttt{string\_invariance},
\texttt{transposeMap\_kraus}, \texttt{kraus\_normalization},
\texttt{unitary\_channel\_transpose} in
\texttt{OIBridge/AntiunitaryInvariance.lean})

\textbf{Theorem B.7.6 (Characterization theorem).} \emph{In the
redefined form of {[}Main §3.4{]}: accessible non-Markovianity of the
visible process is equivalent, on each finite horizon, to embedded
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{[}Origin of the molecular clock hypothesis.{]}

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