Classical Multipath Density Fails D3: A Constraint-Level Separation from Torus Spectral Structure
Abstract
Lohmiller and Slotine (Proc. Royal Society A, 2026) show that classical constrained systems can reproduce quantum wave functions via multivalued action and density, establishing a computational equivalence between the Hamilton–Jacobi equation and the Schrödinger equation under appropriate density construction. This note evaluates that result against the D3 spectral discriminator (Tuckwell, 2026), which requires two independent commuting S1 actions and Z x Z winding-index organisation as the minimal algebraic condition for torus topology T2 = S1 x S1. The Lohmiller–Slotine construction does not satisfy the D3 condition: no independent cyclic generators, no commutativity requirement, and no Z x Z mode indexing are present. The constraint mechanism is analytic (density weighting over least-action paths) rather than topological (fundamental group condition on the manifold). However, the result reinforces the broader constraint-selection principle and identifies a testable bridge: whether the density-action formulation, applied within a toroidal confinement geometry, produces modes organised by commuting winding indices (m, n) in Z x Z. This document is filed as a standalone related signal note within the Tuckwell corpus. Structural analogy: PASS. D3 equivalence: FAIL. Corpus relevance: HIGH.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Quantum many-body systems
Quantum chaos and dynamical systems
Quantum Mechanics and Non-Hermitian Physics
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Publication date
- 25 April 2026
- Document type
- Preprint