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30 December 2025

Conditional Cosmological Recurrence in Finite Hilbert Spaces and Holographic Bounds Within Causal Patches

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Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Crete, 70013 Heraklion, Greece
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Department of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete, 73100 Chania, Greece
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Universe2026, 12(1), 10;https://doi.org/10.3390/universe12010010 
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Abstract

A conditional framework of Conditional Cosmological Recurrence (CCR) is introduced, as follows: if a causal patch admits a finite operational Hilbert space dimension D (as motivated by holographic and entropy bounds), then unitary quantum dynamics guarantee almost-periodic evolution, leading to recurrences. The central contribution is the explicit formulation of a micro-to-macro bridge, as follows: (i) finite regions discretize field modes; (ii) gravitational bounds cap entropy and energy; and (iii) the number of accessible states is finite, yielding CCR. The analysis differentiates global microstate recurrences (with double-exponential timescales in Smax) from operationally relevant coarse-grained returns (exponential in subsystem entropy), with conservative timescale estimates. For predictivity in eternally inflating settings, a causal-diamond measure with xerographic typicality and a single no-Boltzmann-brain constraint is employed, thereby avoiding volume-weighting pathologies. The scope is explicitly conditional: if future quantum gravity demonstrates D= for causal patches, CCR is falsified.

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