[
  {
    "id": "ARR-2026-0FF03PQCTD89KBTM-v1",
    "type": "article",
    "title": "Operational Curvature of the Heisenberg Cut: Exact Diamond Readout, a Discrete Stokes Law, and Sharp Action Bounds for Dissipative Zeno Holonomy",
    "author": [
      {
        "literal": "Lluis Eriksson"
      }
    ],
    "issued": {
      "date-parts": [
        [
          2026,
          8,
          10
        ]
      ]
    },
    "publisher": "AIRR.SCIENCE",
    "archive": "AIRR.SCIENCE",
    "archive_location": "ARR-2026-0FF03PQCTD89KBTM",
    "version": "v1",
    "genre": "Archived manuscript",
    "URL": "https://airr.science/papers/ARR-2026-0FF03PQCTD89KBTM/versions/v1/",
    "note": "Archived manuscript; ARR-2026-0FF03PQCTD89KBTM v1. Not peer reviewed by AIRR. Historical import; not assessed by AIRR.",
    "abstract": "The order of short operations is normally a microscopic detail. We show that a fixed degenerate measurement turns it into an operational curvature with an exact macroscopic readout. Let E retain a block matrix algebra, and let two words apply the same short Hamiltonian kicks in different orders, with the same nonselective pinching after every kick. Their leading difference is `-i tau^2 ad(F) E`, where F is the sum of `i[h_j,h_k]` over pairwise inversions. This gives a discrete non-Abelian Stokes law. Its diamond-norm coefficient is exactly the largest spectral diameter of a block of F, and therefore fixes the leading optimal channel-discrimination advantage. Under first-order balance, all permutations have the same dissipator while their geometric Hamiltonians differ exactly by F, so local curvature integrates into distinct diffusive quantum Markov semigroups. We characterize contextual invisibility, the rank-one classical boundary, and inverse-success amplification under postselection. Every retained Hamiltonian modulo the block center is realizable by a balanced three-kick loop. For a qubit block we prove the sharp action law `kappa <= S^2/[m tan(pi/m)]`, attained by regular planar kick polygons. An integer-Pauli four-kick architecture saturates the bound and supports primitive dissipation. Symbolic, semidefinite, and convergence certificates accompany the paper."
  }
]