Record consistency under repeated readout and apparatus composition
Abstract
No-signalling constraints on isolated outcome probabilities do not determine whether an apparatus preserves the joint law of its accessible records under repeated readout, network composition, or reuse. We study these extensions through a conditional-record criterion and four explicit models. For a wrapped-Cauchy retrocausal source, protection under two conditionally independent continuous readouts forces an angle-independent response; three readouts suffice without continuity. A finite angular-bandwidth assumption gives a quantitative leakage bound, whereas continuity alone gives no uniform stability. At a specified two-source Bell junction, the required correction matrix has full nonnegative rank on every even uniform angular grid. A Gaussian controller can cancel branch-mass dependence while leaving a distinguishable joint record, for which we derive exact noise and law-change tradeoffs. Finally, a fixed singlet with shared classical noise reproduces the variable-width isolated outcome family, but retained and refreshed controllers generate different temporal statistics. We prove a finite-resource obstruction and construct positive finite-controller approximations. Numerical studies comprising 8.3 million independent simulated histories support the model-specific predictions. Together, the results identify conditions that must accompany marginal no-signalling when extending an apparatus to richer records and interventions.
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BibTeX
@misc{weerasinghe2026record,
title = {{Record consistency under repeated readout and apparatus composition}},
author = {D. M. Theshan N. Weerasinghe},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.04788},
eprint = {2610.04788},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.04788},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Record consistency under repeated readout and apparatus composition
AU - D. M. Theshan N. Weerasinghe
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/03
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.04788
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.04788
AB - No-signalling constraints on isolated outcome probabilities do not determine whether an apparatus preserves the joint law of its accessible records under repeated readout, network composition, or reuse. We study these extensions through a conditional-record criterion and four explicit models. For a wrapped-Cauchy retrocausal source, protection under two conditionally independent continuous readouts forces an angle-independent response; three readouts suffice without continuity. A finite angular-bandwidth assumption gives a quantitative leakage bound, whereas continuity alone gives no uniform stability. At a specified two-source Bell junction, the required correction matrix has full nonnegative rank on every even uniform angular grid. A Gaussian controller can cancel branch-mass dependence while leaving a distinguishable joint record, for which we derive exact noise and law-change tradeoffs. Finally, a fixed singlet with shared classical noise reproduces the variable-width isolated outcome family, but retained and refreshed controllers generate different temporal statistics. We prove a finite-resource obstruction and construct positive finite-controller approximations. Numerical studies comprising 8.3 million independent simulated histories support the model-specific predictions. Together, the results identify conditions that must accompany marginal no-signalling when extending an apparatus to richer records and interventions.
ER -