An O(1) Bitwise Evaluator for Cayley--Dickson Sign Structure: Ordinary, Split, Dual, and Tensor Constructions

The sign of the Cayley--Dickson basis product eᵢ · eⱼ = ± ei ⊕ jcoincides with the explicit twist function σ(A,B) of Ren and Zhao(Theorem~1 for the standard algebras; Theorem~2 for the split relationσₛ = σ + aₙ₋₁ bₙ₋₁)~{RenZhao2023}.This paper gives an independent treatment of that sign law from thecomputational side. We prove the block sign rules (the ``OPMT sign law'')directly from the Cayley--Dickson doubling formula, introduce a holographic$O(n)$ descent algorithm whose correctness we prove against these rules, andcollapse the descent into a strictly table-free $O(1)$ word-RAM evaluatorusing three trailing-zero counts, one maximum comparison, and one populationcount. We prove that the evaluator computes exactly the twist functionof~{RenZhao2023}, and that our split variant implements theirTheorem~2. The structural-break descent, the constant-time collapse, and theequivalence theorem are new; the sign function itself is dueto~{RenZhao2023}, building on Albuquerque--Majid~{AlbuquerqueMajid1999}and the Cayley--Dickson process of Schafer~{Schafer1954}.We extend the framework to the dual familyAₙ[ε]/(ε²), provingproving proving Aₙ[ε]/(ε²) Aₙ ⊗R R[ε]/(ε²), and to tensor products via a signcomposition principle. We further present an empirically validated countingformula for a class of zero-divisor pairs, stated explicitly as a conjecture.Three implementations are provided and cross-verified: a full table builder,and $O(n)$ and $O(1)$ single-product evaluators.