Computational Phase Synchronization

This corrected preprint presents its research question, method, bounded result, and principal limitations in a standardized reader-facing format. Distributed systems often receive several partial measurements of the same changing process, but those measurements may not arrive in one common cyclic frame. A camera, microphone, inertial sensor, memory module, or artificial agent can preserve useful content while its timing or phase relation differs from that of its peers. Averaging such states before estimating their relative offsets can cancel signal, mix incompatible observations, or create a confident but incorrect fused state. Existing engineering provides several parts of the solution. Hardware synchronization aligns clocks before measurement. It belongs to Micah Blumberg's governed research-paper corpus. This is a corrected preprint edition released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.