qector-space-timelisted
Install: claude install-skill GuillaumeLessard/qector-claude-plugin
# QECTOR Space-Time and Streaming
Source of authority: v1.0.0 reference manual, chapter 10.
## Why space-time
Physical measurements are noisy, so a detector event must be
attributable either to a data fault or to a measurement fault. The
space-time approach builds a `(2+1)`-dimensional detector lattice
over `T` rounds and solves a single matching problem on it, with
anisotropic edge weights.
## Detector formulation (manual 10.1)
d_{c,t} = s_{c,t} xor s_{c,t-1}
- A data error in round `t` flips the same checks in round `t` and
`t+1`, producing two detection events in consecutive layers.
- A measurement error flips one detector in a single layer.
The lifted matrix `H_ST` contains data columns and measurement
columns, with:
- **Spatial weights** derived from the data-error probability.
- **Temporal weights** derived from the measurement-error
probability.
## Theorem 13 (space-time lifting faithfulness, manual 10.2)
> Let `H_ST` be the lifted parity-check matrix with data and
> measurement columns. A correction `c_ST` whose boundary in the
> detector graph equals `d` satisfies `H_ST c_ST = d (mod 2)`;
> projecting the measurement columns away yields a spatial
> correction whose syndrome differs from the final raw round only
> by the final-round measurement error term.
The proof sketch: the lifted matrix is a chain complex whose
boundary operator applies the spatial syndrome to each time layer
and the difference operator across layers. Any matching whose paths
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