Failure of disjoint additivity under magnetic Gauss constraints

arXiv:2610.25329 · quant-ph · Submitted 2026-10-18 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-10-18

Updated: 2026-10-18

Comments: 24 pages, 3 figures; includes Supplemental Material

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The gist: Under local magnetic Gauss constraints, vertex-disjoint regions can have commuting physical observable algebras that do not generate all observables on their union.

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Abstract

Under local magnetic Gauss constraints, vertex-disjoint regions can have commuting physical observable algebras that do not generate all observables on their union. We construct such counterexamples for every finite non-Abelian group on regular square tori, retaining the full magnetic physical space and original supports inside a fixed contractible disk. A peripheral projector selects inputs on which a joint transition preserves the constraints, while its loop factor alone fails the universal test over physical exterior completions. For a specified support family around a fixed eight-edge square loop, additivity fails if and only if the group is non-Abelian and each inner face is covered by at least one of its two prescribed peripheral edges. Leaving a face uncovered restores full additivity. For the same loop, additivity also holds with any region at vertex-set graph distance at least two. These results refute a recent group-double additivity proposition.

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