Context
Two marker-separated components have incompatible abelianized drifts. One global length gauge acts identically on both and cannot remove their linear difference.
Definitions
- The four branches have values , with central and .
Proof or evidence
Equal-length branch delays remain conjugates of Z^m, giving the raw lower bound. Comparing the X- and Y-components in abelianization leaves m(-1,1) under every global gauge, forcing one canonical exit value to have linear norm.
Verification notes
The archived audit checks 400 random gauges and 6,421 exact word norms. The new independent review adds 13,122 global-delay checks, 6,561 abelianized-drift and canonical-lower-bound checks, 404 two-mode-collapse controls, and the exact four-state boundary at N=2.
Limitations
- The separation is only against one global length-and-constant gauge chosen per horizon.
- The explicit first-marker modes (X^{-1},X^2) and (Y^{-1},Y^2) cancel both component drifts, and an unrestricted letter-emitting transducer trivializes the proposed coordinate; neither family is covered by the theorem.
Notes
This is not unrestricted gauge invariance. A two-mode length gauge collapses the example, and a general letter-emitting transducer baseline collapses the branch-delay argument. No state-indexed gauge hierarchy is inferred.