OTF II: The Tensor Channel of Physical Admissibility: Decoherence, Gluing, and the Classicalization of Primordial Tensor Modes

Paper I argued that the Ontological Totality Functional (OTF) should be read not as a new totalizing theory, but as a theory of physically admissible structures. Paper II provides the first dedicated physical realization of that claim. It focuses on one channel only: the classicalization of primordial tensor modes. The central thesis is that a tensor mode does not become physically real merely by being mathematically definable or dynamically squeezed. It becomes physically admissible when two conditions are met simultaneously: local-to-global closure across effective descriptions and sufficiently small noetic defect relative to a pointer subalgebra. The paper formulates a reduced tensor-sector OTF in quasi-de Sitter space, drawing on the language of open quantum systems and recent work on primordial graviton decoherence and primordial-gravitational-wave phenomenology. A tensor gluing defect GT (k, a) measures inconsistency between competing coarse-grained propagators or channels across scale windows, while a tensor noetic defect NT (k, a) measures the trace-norm distance of the reduced state to a preferred pointer algebra. These defects define a mode-wise admissibility rate. GammaOTF (k, a) = alpha GT (k, a) + beta NT (k, a), which enters a defect-dependent Lindblad evolution for the reduced tensor density matrix. The resulting decoherence factor defines suppression of off-diagonal tensor coherences and a scale-dependent classicalization epoch. Three main results are obtained. First, positivity of the defect rates implies monotonic decay of off-diagonal coherences in the pointer basis. Second, if the integrated admissibility rate crosses a finite threshold, then classicalization occurs at a finite epoch for that mode. Third, the OTF channel induces a clean phenomenological parameterization in the tensor sector: a coherence-suppression window and an effective modification of the primordial tensor signal that can be bounded with future B-mode searches. This record is part of the Ontological Totality Functional (OTF) series. Companion works include OTF I, OTF III, OTF IV, and the OTF Master Edition. Companion records in the OTF series: OTF I — DOI: 10. 5281/zenodo. 19068375OTF IV — DOI: 10. 5281/zenodo. 19076867OTF Master Edition — DOI: 10. 5281/zenodo. 19077303