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Pole-Zero Geometry, Model Reduction, and Identifiability in Sensory Adaptation
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Sensory adaptation provides a concrete setting in which low-order system identification can fail qualitatively. We show that one fixed higher-order adaptive system composed entirely of real first-order relaxation modes can be reduced to opposite sides of the second-order pole boundary: low-frequency moment matching gives $ρ_{\rm moment}=4.50$, whereas finite-window fitting gives $ρ_{\rm window}=3.31$, and the inferred pole class changes further with sampling protocol. Thus the real-versus-complex classification of a reduced model is not itself reduction invariant. We then use the general two-state spectrum to connect stochastic identifiability to adaptation: for nontrivial coupling and one-state observation, cross diffusion drops out of the scalar spectrum when the hidden state has no self-relaxation. In the adaptive model, this condition is precisely the integral-memory limit that produces exact adaptation, while leaky memory restores spectral sensitivity. For the exact-adaptation model, the Gaussian path-space irreversibility nevertheless depends on the hidden cross-diffusion channel. Hence $\{H,S_x\}$ does not determine the irreversibility rate. Independently, for a specified all-even reduced two-state drift with $ρ<4$, the drift-only lower bound is $σ\ge τ_x^{-1}(4/ρ-1)$. Published \textit{E.~coli} and \textit{C.~elegans} responses provide biological examples of these limits. The distinction established here between transfer-function invariants, reduction-dependent properties, and hidden-state quantities provides a concrete framework for evaluating the limitations of low-dimensional models of adaptive biological dynamics.
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