IndisputableMonolith.Verification.GWTC3RingdownHDF5SampleSummary
Records a one-statement posterior summary of a single range-read GWTC-3 ringdown HDF5 member: sample and field counts, path metadata, and means (plus a frequency quantile) for the stored columns. Gravitational-wave and Recognition verification work cites it as the frozen numeric snapshot between the schema layer and the one-member physical statistics. The module is structural bookkeeping over the already-inspected sample table, not a new inference engine.
claimFor one range-read GWTC-3 ringdown HDF5 posterior member, the module fixes the member name, posterior path, sample count $N$, field count, and the column means $\overline{\psi}$, $\overline{\log A}$, $\overline{f}$, $\overline{\tau}$, $\overline{\phi}$, $\overline{\log\mathcal{L}}$, $\overline{\log\pi}$, together with a frequency quantile $f_{Q16}$.
background
GWTC-3 is the LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA gravitational-wave transient catalog. Ringdown analyses fit quasinormal-mode (QNM) parameters on the post-merger waveform; the corresponding posterior tables are shipped as large HDF5 archives. The upstream schema module performs a structural, range-read inspection of one actual member without pulling the full ~1.44 GB ZIP, and declares that inspection closed (0 sorry, 0 RS-internal axiom).
This summary module sits directly on that schema. It freezes the member identity, path, $N$, field count, and the first-moment (and one quantile) statistics of the columns that later physical maps need: phase-like $\psi$, log-amplitude, frequency $f$, damping time $\tau$, an auxiliary phase $\phi$, and the likelihood/prior logs. No new sampling is performed; the numbers are the certified readout of the already-opened table.
proof idea
Definition and constant module, not a multi-step proof development. It names the summary fields (member, path, counts, means, $f_{Q16}$) as Lean values tied to the upstream HDF5 sample schema, so downstream modules can cite a single frozen posterior snapshot rather than re-opening the file layout. Argument structure is structural recording plus whatever one-statement theorem packages those constants; there is no analytic derivation inside the module.
why it matters in Recognition Science
Bridges raw schema inspection to the first physically interpreted one-member GWTC-3 ringdown checks in the Recognition verification stack. Downstream, the damping-statistic module maps $f_{t_0}$ and $\tau_{t_0}$ into a per-cycle QNM damping ratio; the RS-statistic module builds the first explicitly Recognition-referenced amplitude statistic on the same range-read table. Both import this summary so their claims rest on one shared, closed numeric member rather than ad hoc file reads. In the broader framework this is catalog verification infrastructure, not a forcing-chain (T0–T8) step; it anchors empirical ringdown numbers that later RS comparisons can cite without re-litigating HDF5 layout.
scope and limits
- Does not download or certify the full 1.44 GB GWTC-3 ringdown archive.
- Does not claim multi-event or catalog-wide posterior coverage; one member only.
- Does not derive QNM damping ratios or RS amplitude maps (those live downstream).
- Does not perform Bayesian re-inference; it records means and a quantile from an existing table.
- Does not assert agreement with Recognition mass or alpha predictions by itself.
used by (2)
depends on (1)
declarations in this module (30)
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def
summaryMemberName -
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summaryPosteriorPath -
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summarySampleCount -
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summaryFieldCount -
def
psiMean -
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logAMean -
def
fMean -
def
tauMean -
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phiMean -
def
logLMean -
def
logPriorMean -
def
fQ16 -
def
fMedian -
def
fQ84 -
def
tauQ16 -
def
tauMedian -
def
tauQ84 -
theorem
summary_member_matches_schema -
theorem
summary_path_matches_schema -
theorem
summary_sample_count_matches_schema -
theorem
summary_field_count_matches_schema -
theorem
summary_sample_count_pos -
theorem
summary_field_count_pos -
theorem
mean_signs -
theorem
f_quantile_order -
theorem
tau_quantile_order -
structure
GWTC3RingdownHDF5SampleSummaryCert -
def
gwtc3RingdownHDF5SampleSummaryCert -
theorem
gwtc3RingdownHDF5SampleSummaryCert_inhabited -
theorem
gwtc3_ringdown_hdf5_sample_summary_one_statement