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Standing monotonicity and the physical clock

The Physical Clock as a Quotient

Amos Jay Maley

Overview This manuscript is Paper II in the AASC Time Non-Primitivity series. The paper treats the physical clock not as a primitive temporal parameter, preferred variable, gauge slice, subsystem label, external time, or record token, but as a quotient object: the use-relative equivalence class of certified same-scope clock-use behavior for a declared constrained domain and physical use. The first paper in the series, The Arrow of Time as Standing Monotonicity , establishes the directionality side of the program...

All-version DOI
10.5281/zenodo.20833048
Archive page
https://constraintsystemsinstitute.org/papers/the-physical-clock-as-a-quotient-10-5281-zenodo-20833048/
Report number
CSI-ZENODO-20833048
Publication date
2026/06/24
Source record
https://zenodo.org/records/20833949