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Equation 37 · Part 10 · A Horizon Is a Toll Booth, Not a Loophole

Numerator: 2[langle H(τ)rangle-E_0(τ)]

∣ddτln⁡ ⁣[⟨H(τ)⟩−E0(τ)]∣≪2[⟨H(τ)⟩−E0(τ)]πℏ.\left|\frac{d}{d\tau}\ln\!\left[\langle H(\tau)\rangle - E_0(\tau)\right]\right| \ll \frac{2\left[\langle H(\tau)\rangle-E_0(\tau)\right]}{\pi\hbar}.
2[⟨H(τ)⟩−E0(τ)]2\left[\langle H(\tau)\rangle-E_0(\tau)\right]

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2[langle H(τ)rangle-E0(τ)E_0(τ)] occurs above the fraction bar. The numerator is divided by the entire denominator below it.

The passage around this formula

The dossier for this paper flags something the two equations above do not, by themselves, settle: the periodic-evolution bound above was derived for a Hamiltonian with a genuinely time-independent spectrum. A real computation drives H(τ\tau) through a sequence of different instantaneous Hamiltonians, one per gate, and nothing guarantees in advance that a chain of instantaneously applied bounds sums to a valid bound on the whole chain. The condition that licenses treating N⊥N_\perp[Γ\Gamma] as a legitimate partition into instantaneously static Levitin-Toffoli steps is a quasi-static one: over one local orthogonalization time τML(τ)\tau_{\rm ML}(\tau) = π\piℏ\hbar/[2(⟨\langle H(τ\tau)⟩\rangle-E0(τ)E_0(\tau))] ,…

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