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Global Non-Identifiability of Fubini-Study Geometry from Complete One-Period Endpoint Data
arXiv
Authors: Rashid Ahmad
Year
2026
Paper ID
75792
Status
Preprint
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We establish a global, worst-case non-identifiability theorem for periodically driven finite-dimensional quantum systems. On the unrestricted smooth periodic Hamiltonian class, we show that the period-averaged Fubini-Study metric component of a fixed initial state cannot, in general, be reconstructed from exact one-period propagators indexed by every starting time and external parameter. Thus, even complete starting-time-resolved endpoint data are insufficient to determine this intra-period geometric quantity. The obstruction is characterized exactly. The starting-time-indexed endpoint data determine the conjugation path of the monodromy, but not its particular unitary lift. On each fixed-monodromy slice, the observational fibres are precisely the right orbits generated by smooth parameter-dependent based loops taking values in the pointwise centralizer of the monodromy. The Fubini-Study functional is not invariant under this fibre action and therefore does not factor through the endpoint observation map. An explicit real-analytic two-level witness demonstrates the obstruction within a commuting, one-generator Hamiltonian family, so neither non-Abelian time ordering nor Floquet-logarithm ambiguity is required. A continuous family of Hamiltonians produces identical starting-time-indexed one-period endpoint data while yielding different, and on the unrestricted class arbitrarily separated, period-averaged Fubini-Study geometry. Non-identifiability persists under any prescribed uniform bound on the parameter derivative of the Hamiltonian. The result is a deterministic global statement, not a claim of generic non-identifiability or experimental impossibility. It identifies a precise information gap between complete one-period endpoint data and full intra-period dynamics: the missing information is the unitary lift of the observed monodromy path rather than ordinary scalar phase freedom.
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