When Is History Truncation Safe for Quantum-Code Optimization? Projective-Unitary Path Collapse and Distribution-Robust Optimizer Reversal

## Overview This paper studies when a reduction of a finite quantum error-history model preserves the local direction of quantum-code optimization, and when it reverses that direction. For finite coactive spectral branches, the paper first proves a second-order local truncation-safety certificate. A strict optimizer of a truncated model persists when the full-versus-truncated effective-jet discrepancy is smaller than the coercivity margin of the truncated objective. Opposite leading jets provide a certificate of local optimizer reversal. The paper then identifies an exact boundary between genuine temporal structure and removable path redundancy. For a finite projective unitary error group, any open-loop path operator has the form W_γ=eiθ_γUc(γ), where c(γ) is the final group product. Consequently, an arbitrary temporally correlated path law is isometrically equivalent, for complete complementary leakage and for every code, to the single-shot distribution of the final projective product: Lₚₐₜₕ(V)= Lπ(V). For Pauli trajectories, this remains true even when ordered errors do not commute, because different orderings can differ only by projective phases after contraction to the final channel. Thus open-loop final-channel leakage cannot identify temporal organization beyond the final projective Pauli-product distribution. Intermediate measurements, controls, syndrome extraction, or adaptive recovery are required for genuinely intervention-resolved multi-time code geometry. ## Distribution-robust optimizer reversal For an arbitrary three-location bit-flip trajectory law, let π denote the induced final-parity distribution on F₂³, let $c=(1,1,1)$, and define Λ_π:=∑t∈ F₂³√πₜπt⊕ c. For the three-qubit repetition code E=span\|000,|111\, the complete complementary leakage is exactly L_π(E)=Λ_π. For every fixed full-support final-parity law, the intrinsic Fourier-syndrome graph coordinate w satisfies L_π(V(w))=Λ_π-2Λ_π|w|²+o(|w|²). Hence the repetition code is a strict local maximum throughout this two-real-dimensional graph chart for every full-support final-parity distribution, independently of temporal correlations, stationarity, roundwise independence, identical error rates, or cyclic spatial symmetry. By contrast, a conditioned zero-and-one-fault truncation with positive coarse single-location weights has L≤ 1(E)=0 and strictly positive leakage at every nonzero sufficiently nearby graph code. The same reference code is therefore a strict local minimum for the truncated model and a strict local maximum for the complete process. The central conclusion is: > Exact aggregation of paths that implement the same projective physical operator preserves the entire code-optimization landscape, whereas deletion of higher-fault history fibers can reverse the local optimizer geometry. ## Scope The results concern random-unitary, open-loop finite-history models and complete complementary-channel leakage. The optimizer reversal is proved in a specified Fourier-syndrome graph chart around the three-qubit repetition code. The paper does not claim: - a full-Grassmannian classification for the three-qubit model;- a decoder or recovery-circuit construction;- a logical-error threshold;- a circuit-level hardware noise model;- collapse of an intervention-resolved process tensor;- equivalence in the presence of intermediate syndrome measurements, controls, or adaptive recovery. These intervention-resolved settings form the natural next boundary of the theory. ## Relation to the preceding research program This paper is a concluding bridge theorem paper connected to a six-paper exact finite-history QEC and spectral-minimax research line. ### 1. Compression-geometric foundation **Sharp Complementarity, Complete Attainable Region, and Metric Rigidity of Rank-Two Quantum Codes under Collective and Differential Dephasing** Version v0.5r2b DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21523950 This paper determined the complete attainable compression-defect region for rank-two codes under collective and differential two-qubit dephasing, classified the equality geometry, and established sharp metric rigidity. ### 2. Balanced finite-history minimax **Environment-Record Leakage for Finite Quantum Error Histories: Balanced Global Minimax, Complete Minimizer Geometry, and Distributional Stability** Version v0.5r2 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21560397 This paper introduced the complete environment-record leakage objective for finite error histories, solved the balanced two-step minimax problem globally over Gr(2,4), classified all balanced minimizers, and established distributional stability. ### 3. Bias-induced geometric selection **Bias-Induced Non-Isoclinic Optimality in Finite Quantum Error Histories: Exact Separation, Thresholdless Bifurcation, and Near-Balanced All-Code Minimax** Version v0.3r2 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21598820 This paper proved exact non-isoclinic separation, an open non-isoclinic parameter region, thresholdless loss of isoclinic optimality under arbitrarily small bias, and the leading full-Grassmannian near-balanced minimax selector. ### 4. Fourth-order overlap selection **Flat-Interior Persistence and Singular Overlap Selection in Near-Balanced Quantum Error Histories: Fourth-Order Transition Curves and Full-Grassmannian Minimax Closure** Version v0.1r3 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21622029 This sequel resolved the higher-order overlap degeneracy, established flat-interior persistence, derived singular boundary-layer transition curves, and closed the near-balanced full-Grassmannian minimax expansion through fourth order. ### 5. Abstract reflected spectral-jet framework **Reflected Spectral-Jet Realization for Degenerate Minimax Problems: Hard-Normal Selection, Flat Tangential Persistence, and Coactive Boundary Transitions** Version v0.2r1 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21636022 This paper extracted a reusable abstract framework for hard-normal isolation, soft tangential persistence, reflected active branches, and coactive boundary transitions in degenerate spectral minimax problems. ### 6. Finite-orbit generalization and first QEC truncation reversal **Beyond Reflected Pairs: Finite-Orbit Spectral Jets, Quadratic Isolation, and Multi-Branch Coactivity in Degenerate Minimax Problems** Version v0.4r1 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21644364 This paper generalized the reflected-pair theory to finite transitive orbits, developed multi-branch coactivity and representation-theoretic jet obstructions, and exhibited an exact three-location QEC realization in which restoring omitted multi-fault histories reverses the local optimizer geometry. ### 7. Present bridge theorem The present paper determines which open-loop temporal path information is exactly removable and which history reductions remain unsafe. It extends the earlier single-process reversal from independent or cyclic models to arbitrary correlated projective-unitary paths and arbitrary full-support final-parity laws. The resulting research progression is $$compression geometry global minimax-induced selection-order closure spectral jets-orbit coactivity path collapse and distribution-robust reversal.$$ ## Reproducibility package The accompanying bundle contains: - the manuscript PDF;- the LaTeX source;- an exact symbolic verification script;- a machine-readable verification report;- a README describing the proof-artifact contract;- a SHA-256 manifest;- version and package-audit records. The verifier performs 72 exact symbolic checks, including projective Pauli phase identities, phase-covariant path compression, arbitrary-parity polar factors, translation orthogonality, Fourier-syndrome graph compressions, and coefficient bookkeeping for the distribution-robust local expansion. The verifier deliberately rejects optimized Python mode. PASS decisions do not rely on floating-point tolerances. Compactness, maximizing-direction localization, trace-norm differentiability, and uniform asymptotic assembly remain analytic parts of the manuscript proof rather than delegated computational claims.