Coarse-Grained Anti-Recurrence and Informational Hysteresis in Finite Memory Systems: Lost Preimages, Side Records, and Capacity-Recovery Asymmetry

Yining Wu · 2026-05-18

Studies the finite-memory consequence of non-injective truncation: once preimage information is absent from the effective record, later capacity recovery does not reconstruct discarded distinctions. Formalizes preimage entropy, Bayes-optimal recovery bound, capacity-recovery asymmetry, informational hysteresis, information-theoretic Markov-closure errors, Mori-Zwanzig memory-kernel burden, externalization break-even, benign vs malignant hysteresis, and Phase-B survivor selection. Does not deny microscopic reversibility or fluctuation theorems.

@misc{wu2026fdsp4,
  author = {Yining Wu},
  title = {Coarse-Grained Anti-Recurrence and Informational Hysteresis in Finite Memory Systems: Lost Preimages, Side Records, and Capacity-Recovery Asymmetry},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.20265065},
}