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Anchored Implication & Event-Indexed Fixed Points in Hilbert Spaces: Uniqueness and Quantitative Rates

Functional Analysis 2025-08-13 v1 Logic Optimization and Control

Abstract

We develop a synthesis of orthomodular logic (projections as propositions) with operator fixed-point theory in Hilbert spaces. First, we introduce an anchored implication connective APcommBA \Rightarrow^{\mathrm{comm}}_{P} B, defined semantically so that it is true only when either AA is false or else AA is true and BB is true in a ''commuting'' context specified by a fixed nonzero projection PP. This connective refines material implication by adding a side condition [EB,P]=0[E_B,P]=0 (commutation of BB with the anchor) and reduces to classical implication in the Boolean (commuting) case. Second, we study fixed-point convergence under event-indexed contractions. For a single nonexpansive (not necessarily linear) map TT, we prove that the event-indexed condition is equivalent to the classical assertion that some power TNT^N is a strict contraction; thus the ''irregular events'' phrasing does not add generality in that setting. We then present the genuinely more general case of varying operators (switching/randomized): if blocks of the evolving composition are contractive with bounded inter-event gaps and a common fixed point exists, we obtain uniqueness and an explicit envelope rate. Finally, with an anchor PP that commutes with TT, the same reasoning ensures convergence on PHPH under event-indexed contraction on that subspace. We include precise scope conditions, examples, and visual explanations.

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@article{arxiv.2508.08397,
  title  = {Anchored Implication & Event-Indexed Fixed Points in Hilbert Spaces: Uniqueness and Quantitative Rates},
  author = {Faruk Alpay and Bugra Kilictas and Taylan Alpay},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.08397},
  year   = {2025}
}

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12 pages, 2 figures, 1 table

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