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Proposition: Record agreement does not determine residuals

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Two channels can have identical classical records for every input and different surviving residual states.

Proof. For a qubit, let

and define channels to a one-label record and a surviving qubit by

Both records are always . For , the residual states are and . Their difference is the Pauli matrix , with eigenvalues . Thus their trace distance is . The residual observable distinguishes them.

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