Prospective Health in Organized Dynamical Systems
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: Prospective Health in Organized Dynamical Systems: Lawful Stochastic Continuation and Constitutive Maintenance in Interacting Kinetic Populations Paper VII — Health, Formally Defined This paper develops a physical realization of prospective Health in finite populations of interacting mechanochemical transporters. Building on the constitutive continuation, representation-sufficiency, and observability framework established in the preceding papers of Health, Formally Defined, the investigation connects lawful stochastic dynamics with functional capacity, resource maintenance, and the information required to characterize future physical behavior. The model consists of reversible four-phase transporters undergoing Langevin motion and guarded chemical reactions while sharing a finite ionic and chemical inventory. A maintained stationary resource environment supplies an invariant single-transporter law from which interacting populations are prepared. The resulting stochastic construction establishes complete physical-time histories, conservation-preserving reactions, and a complete-future restart identity at almost-surely finite stopping times. Prospective capacity is evaluated as the unconditioned probability that these histories satisfy declared functional requirements over specified horizons. The analysis establishes positive finite-horizon charge-band capacity, constructive finite-population eventual exit, and quantitative bounds on exit-time moments. An activity-sensitive requirement further establishes positive capacity for completing a transport cycle with ATP regeneration while maintaining the operating charge band. Productive continuation exhibits fifth-order short-time scaling and attains a positive maximum at a finite horizon. For the same one-label preparation, zero uninterrupted positive-ATP-reserve capacity coexists with positive productive capacity, distinguishing present resource possession from the ability to regenerate and employ that resource. The paper also establishes source-specific prospective observability results. An even-in-momentum representation preserves present charge-band membership and first-order exit information while losing second-order survival-likelihood information under the prepared population. Ideal continuous position histories recover signed momentum, while simultaneous label permutations admit an exact information-preserving reduction of the relevant future laws. Together, these results give a mathematical account of constitutive continuation in which functional requirements, physical dynamics, temporal capacity, and prospective observational information are characterized within a common interacting stochastic system.
Author: James, Zed
Language: English
Subfield: Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225827327
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