Unitary-orbit classification and a refinement theorem for context-independent projective probabilities

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.16936v1
• Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:56:44 GMT
• Title: Unitary-orbit classification and a refinement theorem for context-independent projective probabilities
• Abstract summary: We prove a stability theorem that compares the binary-coarsening path with a shortest path in this graph followed by one complementary unitary.<n>The results are structural characterizations, not independent physical derivations of context independence.
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• Abstract: Let $\mathcal H$ be a finite-dimensional complex Hilbert space, and let $w(P,\mathsf M)$ be a normalized probability weight assigned to an outcome projection $P$ as it occurs in a projective measurement $\mathsf M$. For fixed $P$, let $G_P\cong\mathcal U(P^\perp)$ be the group of unitaries acting identically on $\operatorname{ran}P$ and arbitrarily on $P^\perp$. We classify the $G_P$-orbits of projective measurements containing $P$: two measurements lie in the same orbit exactly when the multisets of ranks of their complementary outcomes agree. The orbit with profile $λ=(r_1,\ldots,r_k)$ is a compact homogeneous space of real dimension $(d-\operatorname{rank}P)^2-\sum_j r_j^2$. On maximal rank-one measurements there is one orbit, so context independence is equivalent to $G_P$-invariance, with equality of the corresponding uniform defects; invariance under two-level complementary unitaries already suffices. For arbitrary projective measurements, every context containing an outcome $P\neq I$ coarsens to the unique binary context $\{P,I-P\}$. Consequently, refinement consistency alone is equivalent to context independence. The finite orbit space carries a natural rank-profile refinement graph, whose diameter is $d-\operatorname{rank}P-1$ when $P\neq I$. We prove a stability theorem that compares the binary-coarsening path with a shortest path in this graph followed by one complementary unitary. In dimension at least three, Gleason's theorem converts the maximal-context invariance condition and the all-context refinement condition, on their respective domains, into the Born form $\operatorname{Tr}(ρP)$. The results are structural characterizations, not independent physical derivations of context independence.

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