Boundary Maintenance and the Second Law under Finite Memory: Irreversible Record Reuse, Entropy Ledgers, and Operational Time Arrows

Yining Wu · 2026-05-17

Operational Trident III. Develops the finite-memory operational Second-Law channel: in physically realized active finite distinction systems, finite memory turns sustained boundary maintenance into record reuse; record reuse creates residual irreversibility unless inverse information remains available in side records; and physical overwrite, cleanup, refresh, repair, synchronization, or externalization must be accounted for in a coupled entropy or resource ledger. States a finite-memory impossibility triangle for sustained record turnover, fixed boundary tolerance, and zero coupled entropy/resource cost.

@misc{wu2026fdso3,
  author = {Yining Wu},
  title = {Boundary Maintenance and the Second Law under Finite Memory: Irreversible Record Reuse, Entropy Ledgers, and Operational Time Arrows},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.20255129},
}