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Pairwise-comparison-valued cosurfaces: a projective framework for multi-scale relational structures

General Physics 2026-05-06 v1

Abstract

We introduce cosurfaces with values in the group \PCn(H)\PC_n(H) of HH-valued reciprocal pairwise comparison matrices. The composition law is covariant on upper triangular coefficients and contravariant on lower triangular coefficients, which makes \PCn(H)\PC_n(H) a natural target for oriented gluing constructions. Starting from a directed family of finite oriented discretizations, we define finite configuration spaces, coarse-graining maps induced by ordered refinements, and the associated universal projective limit. This yields a multi-scale organization of local comparative data in which global objects are reconstructed only through compatibility across scales. In the stochastic setting, projectively compatible probability laws define a cylindrical semantics on the limit space. We also introduce inconsistency observables, interpreted as discrete curvature-type defects measuring obstructions to global coherence. The resulting framework is simultaneously geometric, algebraic, and probabilistic, and suggests a foundational perspective on relational structures built from local comparisons rather than absolute observables.

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@article{arxiv.2605.02931,
  title  = {Pairwise-comparison-valued cosurfaces: a projective framework for multi-scale relational structures},
  author = {Jean-Pierre Magnot},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.02931},
  year   = {2026}
}
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