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May 3, 20260 citationsOpen Access

Causal Priority Theory Part-13 Non-Comparable Histories, Partition Closure, and the Non-Existence of a Process-Only Canonical Derived-Time Selector

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KMKazuyoshi Maezawa

Key Points

  • This work aims to establish the limits of derived-time assignment and determine the role of causal-process data in defining temporal structures.
  • Introduced a strong class-relative comparison relation to show non-comparability within the framework.
  • Constructed an explicit classical commuting example to illustrate results.
  • Mathematically formalized the implications of separation between time and causal structures.
  • Proved the explicit non-totality of comparison, indicating that restricted history classes cannot restore a total order.
  • Demonstrated that no process-only canonical derived-time selector exists under singleton-admissibility.
  • Highlighted that causally admissible structures do not eliminate non-comparability, showing history dependence in time assignments.

Abstract

This paper, Part-13 of the Causal Priority Theory (CPT) series, establishes the final structural limits of derived-time assignment and comparability. While previous parts organized the breakdown and dependence of time, this paper provides the definitive proof that even under physical or operational admissibility restrictions, a unique or total temporal structure cannot be canonically recovered from causal-process data alone. Key Contributions: • Explicit Non-Totality of Comparison: Introduces a "strong class-relative comparison" relation and constructs an explicit classical commuting example to prove that admissibility-relative non-comparability occurs within the framework, demonstrating that restricted history classes do not restore a total order. • No-Go Theorem for Canonical Selectors: Proves that under a singleton-admissibility hypothesis, no "process-only canonical derived-time selector" exists. This confirms that primitive causal order and overall-process data are fundamentally insufficient to determine a unique, partition-independent derived-time value. • Closure Persistence: Distinguishes between refinement closure and T-image closure, showing that strong comparison, when it holds, persists at the T-closure level. Conclusion: This concluding work mathematically formalizes the "separation of time from causal structure". It demonstrates that admissible partition structure does not eliminate non-comparability and that causal-process data alone do not fix a canonical temporal metric. Consequently, history-dependent partition structure is established as an ineliminable and fundamental feature of the time-assignment problem in the Causal Priority framework.

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Kazuyoshi Maezawa (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69f6e6e68071d4f1bdfc7892https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19937751
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