Time-bounded symmetry of information #
This module exposes a non-vacuous machine-relative version of Hirahara's SoI hypothesis. The lower-chain inequality is separate from the unconditional upper chain rule: SoI is a substantive hypothesis, while upper composition follows from an evaluator contract.
The polynomial package quantifies an identity-dominating, polynomially bounded clock and retains an explicit additive constant next to its base-two logarithmic loss. Later results must instantiate the ordinary and conditional evaluators; no universality or Heuristica consequence is assumed here.
The identity transform is an admissible Kolmogorov clock.
Non-vacuous SoI forces the transformed conditional description to exist on every admissible pair.
Non-vacuous SoI also forces the transformed ordinary description of the condition to exist.
Increasing the permitted loss preserves a fixed-clock SoI theorem.
Giving both left-hand descriptions more time preserves SoI.
The algebraic depth-loss bridge used by conditional meta-complexity reductions. If a paired description is upper-bounded by an alternative conditional description plus an earlier-clock description of the condition, SoI cancels the later-clock condition term. The exact remainder is the condition's two-clock depth plus the operational and SoI losses.
The paired-description upper bound remains an explicit premise; constructing it is an evaluator theorem, not an algebraic consequence of SoI.
Fully composed evaluator-to-depth bridge. A condition-first operational compiler with additive program length supplies the paired upper bound required by SoI, yielding the target conditional-complexity inequality without any additional algebraic premise. All finiteness, clock, and description-budget requirements remain visible until a concrete universal evaluator discharges them.
Any polynomial SoI witness remains valid at an admissible larger clock, with the logarithmic loss recalculated at that clock. The premise quantifies over witnesses because the existential clock is intentionally opaque.