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Summary: Research record, section 26: Direct projection of the current V2 scalar quartic into a two-electron channel.

Provenance

Preserved from interaction notebook section 26, recorded 2026-09-05 and corrected 2026-09-06. Original sequence contents. This is an exploratory research record, not an independently established V2 result. Read the related later audits before using an intermediate conclusion.

26. Direct projection of the current V2 scalar quartic into a two-electron channel

The present V2 mass interaction is not the historical coordinate kernel. The current action-level scalar vertex is

Lsc,6=−κ62J62,J6=Ψˉ6Ψ6. \boxed{ \mathcal L_{\rm sc,6} =-\frac{\kappa_6}{2}J_6^2, \qquad J_6=\bar\Psi_6\Psi_6. }

Therefore the first honest K66K_{66} test must begin here.

26.1 Two localized electron-sector contributions

Write the depth-six field locally as two localized contributions,

Ψ6=ψ1+ψ2. \Psi_6=\psi_1+\psi_2.

Then

J6=ψˉ1ψ1+ψˉ2ψ2+ψˉ1ψ2+ψˉ2ψ1. J_6 = \bar\psi_1\psi_1 + \bar\psi_2\psi_2 + \bar\psi_1\psi_2 + \bar\psi_2\psi_1.

Define

J1=ψˉ1ψ1,J2=ψˉ2ψ2, J_1=\bar\psi_1\psi_1, \qquad J_2=\bar\psi_2\psi_2,

and the coherent interference scalar

X=ψˉ1ψ2+ψˉ2ψ1. X=\bar\psi_1\psi_2+\bar\psi_2\psi_1.

Then

J6=J1+J2+X. J_6=J_1+J_2+X.

The quartic expands exactly as

Lsc,6=−κ62(J12+J22+X2+2J1J2+2J1X+2J2X). \mathcal L_{\rm sc,6} =-\frac{\kappa_6}{2} \left( J_1^2+J_2^2+X^2+2J_1J_2+2J_1X+2J_2X \right).

Subtracting the two isolated self-energies leaves the two-packet interaction density

L12sc=−κ6J1J2−κ6(J1+J2)X−κ62X2. \boxed{ \mathcal L_{12}^{\rm sc} =-\kappa_6J_1J_2 -\kappa_6(J_1+J_2)X -\frac{\kappa_6}{2}X^2. }

This is the first direct K66K_{66} result from the current V2 action.

26.2 Incoherent/separated limit

When the packets overlap in density but carry negligible coherent scalar interference,

X→0, X\to0,

the cross term reduces to

L12sc=−κ6J1J2. \boxed{ \mathcal L_{12}^{\rm sc} =-\kappa_6J_1J_2. }

For a non-derivative interaction, the interaction contribution to the Hamiltonian density is

H12sc=−L12sc=κ6J1J2. \mathcal H_{12}^{\rm sc} =-\mathcal L_{12}^{\rm sc} = \boxed{\kappa_6J_1J_2}.

Thus the sign of the physical two-electron scalar interaction is controlled by the sign of the projected coefficient κ6\kappa_6 together with the signs of the scalar bilinears JiJ_i.

The current V2 files do not independently fix the sign of κ6\kappa_6 as a two-body scattering coefficient. The mass theorem fixes only

μ6=κ6R6B6 \mu_6=\kappa_6R_6B_6

as the positive observed rest-frequency scale after profile and spinor contractions. Therefore one cannot infer the sign of κ6\kappa_6 alone from me>0m_e>0 without also fixing the conventions/signs of R6R_6 and B6B_6.

This means the current scalar quartic does not yet predict whether the direct full-depth ee--ee scalar channel is attractive or repulsive.

26.3 Support of the direct scalar channel

The current scalar vertex is algebraic and local. In the coordinate representation its kernel contains

δQ6(q,q′) \delta_{Q_6}(q,q')

and, on the occupied mode ray, the phase-ray delta used by the mass theorem.

Therefore its strict two-particle cross interaction is supported where the two depth-six field contributions overlap on the same Q6Q_6 point. At leading order it does not provide a long-range force that gradually pulls an unobserved impact parameter toward zero.

This is decisive for the beam-correlation idea:

the current order-zero scalar contact can act once full-depth overlap occurs, but by itself it cannot steer initially separated six-dimensional trajectories into overlap. \boxed{ \text{the current order-zero scalar contact can act once full-depth overlap occurs, but by itself it cannot steer initially separated six-dimensional trajectories into overlap.} }

A steering or capture mechanism requires at least one of:

  1. a finite-width/nonlocal scalar kernel;
  2. a derivative/tensor interaction carrying information away from the diagonal;
  3. a gauge/connection-mediated force acting before full contact;
  4. the historical coordinate-space quadratic kernel, if it can be re-derived consistently from the current master action.

26.4 Coherent interference terms

The XX terms show that the scalar quartic is not merely density-density contact when two coherent pieces of the one master field overlap. The interaction contains

−κ6(J1+J2)X -\kappa_6(J_1+J_2)X

and

−κ62X2. -\frac{\kappa_6}{2}X^2.

These terms are sensitive to relative spinor phase and scalar polarization. They are therefore a natural place for polarization-dependent full-contact structure.

However, they still have the same local support as the underlying order-zero vertex. They change what happens at overlap, not the pre-contact unobserved-impact trajectory.