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arXiv · 2608.20259

Operational Foundations for Quaternionic and Octonionic Quantum Models: Exact Quaternionic Channels and Error Correction, Para-Linear Operators, and Categorical Closure Boundaries Beyond Associativity

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A scalar field alone does not determine a quantum theory: states, effects, processes, symmetries, composition, and discard are equally structural. Realification illustrates this point: an orthogonal complex structure J^2 = -I selects the physical real operators and the balanced composite. Quaternionic quantum mechanics has an analogous exact representation on a doubled complex space selected by an antiunitary symplectic structure Theta^2 = -I. Within that sector, a Choi fixed-point condition characterizes when a complex channel admits quaternionic Kraus operators, while exact correction of a finite-dimensional right-quaternionic code is characterized by compression coefficients in the real center and admits an explicit recovery. For octonions, nonassociativity precludes a unique continuation; para-linear, categorical, sectorial, Jordan, Clifford-envelope, and Moufang models are compared by the operational structures they retain and the additional data required to define composites, channels, or recovery. Across these cases, an exact ambient representation does not erase the complex or symplectic structure that selects the physical theory.

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Santiago Pineda Montoya, Johan H. Rua Munoz. 2026-08-20. Operational Foundations for Quaternionic and Octonionic Quantum Models: Exact Quaternionic Channels and Error Correction, Para-Linear Operators, and Categorical Closure Boundaries Beyond Associativity. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.20259

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