Horizon-Restricted Leading Soft QED as Open Quantum System

I formulate black-hole-horizon-induced decoherence of charged branch codes as the leading-soft QED restricted to an exterior algebra, formulated as an open quantum system.

The fixed-history Feynman--Vernon identity ${\cal F}[J,J]=1$ remains exact.

Decoherence enters through the unequal-history influence factor that survives exterior monitoring and belongs to the complementary horizon output.

In the coherent eikonal regime, I derive the completely positive Schur channel $({\cal E}_H^{(0)}\rho)_{ab}=\langle\Phi_b^{H,(0)}|\Phi_a^{H,(0)}\rangle \, \rho_{ab}$.

The leading soft input is the eikonal factor, projected onto the horizon radiative algebra.

The channel yields Gram-positivity constraints, an exterior quantum-eraser bound, finite-time non-Markovianity tests, soft/hard scaling criteria, and a charged-qutrit interferometer measuring a leading-soft Bargmann holonomy.

The holonomy phase is the rephasing-invariant symplectic area of a triangle in horizon soft phase space.

I show that its orientation, common-mode, triangulation, and completely positive determinant identities render falsifiable tests beyond pairwise two-path visibility.