Compression–Resolution Duality Structural Limits of Outcome Resolution

This paper examines the structural admissibility of different forms of description under fixed representational constraints. It introduces a formal distinction between compressed descriptions, which are globally admissible but lack internal indexical differentiation, and resolved descriptions, which are locally admissible for indexical access but lack global com- pleteness. From these definitions, the paper establishes the Compression–Resolution Dual- ity: no single description can simultaneously satisfy the admissibility conditions required for both global specification and local indexical accessibility. This duality is presented as a structural asymmetry, not as a physical mechanism, temporal process, or interpretive claim. The analysis is independent of ontology, dynamics, and empirical assumptions, and does not rely on quantum mechanics, consciousness, or measurement theory. The result is a purely structural account of the limits governing which descriptive roles can be jointly satisfied within a single representational framework.