Entanglement E2 — Two Entanglement Entropies of the Conjugate Weil Pair

The admissible pair sector ($\log 2$) and the full residual rank are different objects.

Overview

The companion entanglement-note and the orthogonality paper E1 establish results about the entanglement of the closed conjugate Weil pair $\{c, q-c\}$. A careful reading shows that two genuinely different entanglement entropies are in play, attached to two different projections of the pair.

Conflating them produces an apparent tension between an unconditional $\log 2$ and a depth-dependent $\log r_{\mathrm{pair}}(n)$. The separation is not cosmetic: the two objects live on projections of different rank, have different physical roles, and have different epistemic status.

Scope. This paper separates the two entropies and fixes the epistemic stratification. The authoritative technical reference is the preprint linked above.

Two distinct objects

Core result 1 — Admissible pair entropy

The proto-state on $\mathcal{A}_c \otimes \mathcal{A}_c$ is the spin-$\tfrac12$ singlet $$ |\Omega_c\rangle = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}} \bigl( |\xi_c\rangle \otimes |q-\xi_c\rangle - |q-\xi_c\rangle \otimes |\xi_c\rangle \bigr), $$ its reduced state is $\rho^{\mathrm{adm}}_c = \tfrac12 \mathbf{1}_2$, and $$ S_{\mathrm{ent}}^{\mathrm{adm}} = \log 2. $$

The proof uses spectral atomicity (O21), the mean-zero lemma, and the Born–Infeld indiscernibility singlet identification of Q3 (Theorem 4.1) applied to the Clebsch–Gordan decomposition $V_{1/2} \otimes V_{1/2} = V_0 \oplus V_1$. The statement is unconditional for general canonical blocks, relative to the cited upstream theorems.

Core result 2 — Full residual-rank entropy

The residual-rank statement $S_{\mathrm{ent}}(n) = \log r_{\mathrm{pair}}(n)$ has a stratified status:

$[\mathrm{H}_{\mathrm{res}}]$ has a status parallel to the conditional hypotheses $[\mathrm{H\text{-}color}]$ and $[\mathrm{H\text{-}ext}]$ elsewhere in the programme.

Bell–Tsirelson sector

The entanglement that CHSH experiments measure is carried by the spin-$\tfrac12$ singlet. By the admissible pair entropy theorem, this is exactly the admissible pair sector with $S_{\mathrm{ent}}^{\mathrm{adm}} = \log 2$. The singlet correlator $E(\hat a, \hat b) = -\hat a \cdot \hat b$ and the unconditional Tsirelson bound $|S_{\mathrm{CHSH}}| \leq 2\sqrt{2}$ are derived from the same admissible structure in Q1 (Theorem 2.14, Corollary 2.16). The admissible pair entropy is therefore the entanglement entropy of the state behind those results.

The full residual-rank entropy is a finer pipeline-level observable that tracks the contraction of the Gram–Schmidt span toward saturation. It is not the quantity measured by a Bell experiment, and it should not be identified with the singlet entropy. The two coincide only in the degenerate case $r_{\mathrm{pair}}(n) = 2$.

Position in the programme

Constituent of the entanglement sub-programme. Builds on E1 (orthogonality and matched-block flat spectrum), O21 (spectral atomicity + mean-zero), O17 (equal residual dimensions), O30 (metaplectic dilation, excluded), Q3 (singlet identification), and Q1 (Tsirelson bound).

References

Beau, J. Two Entanglement Entropies of the Conjugate Weil Pair: the Admissible Pair Sector and the Full Residual Rank. Working paper, 2026. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20499440