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Finite information is not a complete boundary operator

General boundary extraction: a conditional theorem and obstructions › Finite information is not a complete boundary operator · lines 1031–1044

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A fixed tripartite qubit process is a Hermitian matrix. All its one-use probabilities are linear functionals of finitely many real coordinates. Infinitely many instrument settings do not create infinitely many independent process coordinates.

This observation alone is not a cardinality proof excluding every imaginable map from process matrices to metric classes. The proved obstruction is Theorem thm:finite-mode, with its explicit linear-amplitude hypotheses. A general inverse identification claim requires its own observation law and comparison class.