Schrödinger's Cat as Noetherian Residual-Cluster Stabilization in ASFM: Macroscopic Reality as Stabilized Wave-Field Topology

Abstract

This preprint formulates Schrödinger’s cat as a boundary case of macroscopic residual-cluster stabilization within the Asymmetric Source Field Model (ASFM). Instead of treating the cat as a fundamental object placed into competing macroscopic states, the manuscript describes macroscopic reality as stabilized wave-field topology.The ASFM framework starts from the residual field relationwhere constructive source-field components and destructive compensation-field components generate finite, nonzero residual interference structures. Residual nodes are treated as real-space coherence structures, while the quotient structure provides the algebraic stabilization framework.The manuscript distinguishes residual nodes, cluster classes, quotient mappings, causal-retarded field action, topological correlation, and non-claimed simultaneous marginal control. Measurement is described as residual-cluster stabilization rather than as the collapse of a fundamental macroscopic object. The work also states explicit failure conditions and open validation points for future ASFM measurement dynamics.