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Study derives the Born rule and shows indivisibility in quantum processes, indicating rich geometric connections.
This paper derives three theorems and one corollary from a single geometric construction: the moment-map projection of unitary dynamics on the projective state space CP^(N−1) onto the probability simplex Δ^(N−1). Theorem A establishes that the projected stochastic process is generically indivisible in Barandes' sense, with the qubit case recovering Barandes' canonical |U_kj|² example exactly. Theorem B derives the Born rule in two components: the uniform Dirichlet distribution on the simplex arises as the PU(N)-Haar pushforward of the Fubini–Study measure on CP^(N−1), and for a specific state the Born probability of outcome k is the k-th moment-map coordinate |ψ_k|² / ‖ψ‖². Theorem C shows that the class of moment-map-projected unitary processes coincides with Barandes' QM-correspondent class. As a corollary, the per-branch quantum-potential structure that Lohmiller and Slotine (2026) formulate as a spatial claim about Δ_M √ρ_j / √ρ_j has its natural home on CP^(N−1), where the modulus-direction Fubini–Study Laplacian admits the closed form Δ^FS_mod √p_k / √p_k = 1/p_k − (2N−1) globally on the simplex interior. The spatial form is the Kähler–Lagrangian section translation; outside this regime it acquires the standard Madelung–Bohm quantum potential. Vattay (2026) recently identified the spatial form's failure mechanism explicitly via a published comment on Lohmiller–Slotine; this paper provides the complementary geometric resolution. The Foldy–Wouthuysen transform from relativistic quantum mechanics appears as a one-parameter geodesic in PU(4) under the bi-invariant Fubini–Study metric.
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