From Possibility to Actualization: A Minimal Ontological Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

We propose the Quantum Reality Framework (QRF) as a minimal ontological interpretation of quantum mechanics. QRF inherits the full predictive apparatus of standard QM unchanged and reinterprets its ontological ground from a single primitive: structural openness with actualization disposition. V22 introduces two decisive advances over V21. First, the amplitude function A is revised from real to complex — not as a mathematical convenience but as an ontological necessity: phase differences between AE-relations are elements of U(1), and U(1) admits representation only as the complex unit circle. Real A with sign was an inconsistency between the ontological commitment (U(1) phase structure) and the formal representation. With A: G_AE x G_AE -> C, Hermitian and U(1)-structured, the Born rule k = |A|^2/Z follows directly, the three gaps in the earlier derivation collapse, and genuine quantum interference is grounded ontologically rather than stipulated. Second, four concrete experimental proposals are developed (Section 5.3), providing QRF-specific falsification criteria that go beyond standard QM predictions: systematic zeros in V(d), bimodal environment-independent S(omega), a universal qubit/qutrit decoherence ratio of 3/5, and cross-system k-consistency. The key structural insight of V22: QM is not postulated — it follows from U(1). U(1) entails phase; phase entails complex amplitudes; complex amplitudes entail interference; interference plus the Hermitian structure of A entails the Born rule. This is not a mathematical trick but an ontological derivation: reality at the pre-actual level is phase-structured, and phase structure is inherently complex.