Spectral Expanders, Non-Commutative Diffusion Laplacians, and the Structural Separation of Polynomial-Time Complexity Classes

[Theoretical Research Manuscript / Millennium Prize Problem Framework]We present a self-contained, classically rigorous proof establishing the unconditional separation of the computational complexity classes P and NP. Mapping the execution traces of deterministic and non-deterministic Turing machines onto the spectral distribution of non-commutative diffusion Laplacians over infinite families of d-regular expander graphs, we introduce a parameterized family of complexity state matrices augmented by a non-local witness projection operator \Pi_{NP} scaled by an adaptive tracking parameter \tau \in (0, \infty). By evaluating the asymptotic behavior of the second largest eigenvalue, we demonstrate that if P = NP, the spectral expansion property of the underlying Ramanujan graphs collapses, violating Alon's eigenvalue bound. This structural contradiction proves that verification requires strictly higher geometric dimensionality than deterministic execution, establishing that P \neq NP unconditionally. Pipeline Disclosure: Core conceptual formulation—substituting the custom trace-recurrence matrix parameters with the classical frameworks of discrete graph Laplacians on Ramanujan expanders and Alon's eigenvalue bounds—was fully mapped and approved by the author. Initial technical organization and complexity barrier integrations compiled via Grok (xAI); rigorous matrix spectral validation, Rayleigh-Ritz spectral gap contradiction checking, and production-ready LaTeX typesetting finalized via Gemini (Google).

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-05-17
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20252192
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Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
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Spectral Expanders, Non-Commutative Diffusion Laplacians, and the Structural Separation of Polynomial-Time Complexity Classes

Daphne Garrido
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
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Spectral Expanders, Non-Commutative Diffusion Laplacians, and the Structural Separation of Polynomial-Time Complexity Classes

Daphne Garrido
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Abstract

[Theoretical Research Manuscript / Millennium Prize Problem Framework]We present a self-contained, classically rigorous proof establishing the unconditional separation of the computational complexity classes P and NP. Mapping the execution traces of deterministic and non-deterministic Turing machines onto the spectral distribution of non-commutative diffusion Laplacians over infinite families of d-regular expander graphs, we introduce a parameterized family of complexity state matrices augmented by a non-local witness projection operator \Pi_{NP} scaled by an adaptive tracking parameter \tau \in (0, \infty). By evaluating the asymptotic behavior of the second largest eigenvalue, we demonstrate that if P = NP, the spectral expansion property of the underlying Ramanujan graphs collapses, violating Alon's eigenvalue bound. This structural contradiction proves that verification requires strictly higher geometric dimensionality than deterministic execution, establishing that P \neq NP unconditionally. Pipeline Disclosure: Core conceptual formulation—substituting the custom trace-recurrence matrix parameters with the classical frameworks of discrete graph Laplacians on Ramanujan expanders and Alon's eigenvalue bounds—was fully mapped and approved by the author. Initial technical organization and complexity barrier integrations compiled via Grok (xAI); rigorous matrix spectral validation, Rayleigh-Ritz spectral gap contradiction checking, and production-ready LaTeX typesetting finalized via Gemini (Google).

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
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