# UTFANSWF v23 Working Reproducibility Bundle

> **Start here:** `README_FIRST.txt` for the fast path and `REVIEW_GUIDANCE.md` before issuing a framework-level review verdict.

This working archive preserves the **dated UTFANSWF v22 publication record** while integrating the executable UTFANSWF v23 development path. The current v23 foundational path is executable from Zero State (ZS) through SWF-ISM, ANSWF, SANSWF, and the UTFANSWF unified embedding; the existing Rows 19–29 remain preserved and executable.

## Publication record is protected

- `main.tex` — dated v22 source; intentionally unchanged.
- `main.pdf` — dated v22 compiled paper; intentionally unchanged.
- Ronald L. Alexander updates the final publication PDF separately.
- Rows 27–29 are post-release research extensions and do **not** retroactively alter the dated v22 manuscript.

## Canonical run

From the extracted `UTFANSWF_v23` root directory:

```bash
python -m harness.run_all_gates
```

The one command now executes the historical **18 canonical gates**, followed by two blocking auxiliary research checks: **Frog 8/8 research-overlay integrity** and the **August 19 authoritative new-prediction reproduction suite**. The new prediction work is integrated directly into this bundle; there is no nested executable ZIP. Historical row numbering is unchanged.

The Aug. 19 suite reproduces three promoted prediction groups: (1) the fixed-t0 RGI light-quark -> nucleon-mass response with beta-block robustness, (2) exact-Z6 baryon-number selection with DeltaB=1,2 forbidden and DeltaB=3 first allowed at dimension 15, and (3) the PSN-v2 split-spectrum one-loop gauge-running / threshold-kink signature. See `research/new_predictions/README.md`.

## Current executable scope

| Execution label / Rows | Scope | Status under declared gates |
|---|---|---|
| 0 / ZS | Zero State foundational preflight and SWF-ISM Gaussian handoff | PASS |
| 0.1 / SWF-ISM | Information-state / harmonic / MaxEnt preflight and ANSWF handoff | PASS |
| 0.2 / ANSWF | EFT dispersion / positivity admissibility and SANSWF handoff | PASS |
| 0.3 / SANSWF | SU(5) gauge consistency, corrected BFB geometry, full 406-channel tree-level unitarity | PASS |
| 0.4 / UTFANSWF | SU(5) anomaly + seesaw + protected two-loop unification + exact-Z6 prediction propagation | PASS (blind UV boundary open) |
| 19 | Hardened EH/Litim FRG + scalar stability + canonical EH+R^2 tensor/FLRW propagation map + positivity/Jacobian handoff | PASS (canonical GW map closed; generalized extensions open) |
| 20 | Preserved v22 compressed-cosmology critical gate | PASS |
| 20.1 | Preserved July-2026 distributed H0 candidate record / v23 recalculation boundary | PASS (next correlated derivation open) |
| 20.4 | Archived JWST UVLF diagnostic reproduction | PASS (physical JWST gate open) |
| 21 | Axion declared 6–60 ueV band with explicit 10–60 ueV root-table coverage | PASS (coverage boundary explicit) |
| 22 | Neutral Zone dual-slack + spectral-headroom gate | PASS |
| 23 | Kerr QNM benchmark + canonical Row-19 gravity handoff | PASS (canonical zero-echo amplitude closed; nonzero reflective extension open) |
| 24 | Shipped AI benchmark-table reproduction | PASS (manuscript loss-AUC + runtime safety rails open) |
| 25 | v19 stress registry reconciled to live v23 gates | PASS (canonical echo requirement closed; legacy joint/uncertainty/full-band source boundaries remain) |
| 26 | Protected publication hashes + bundle provenance integrity | PASS (final v23 reference consolidation open) |
| 27 | Fine-structure blind checkpoint / provenance gate | PASS |
| 28 | Exact-`Z6` proton-stability research gate | PASS |
| 29 | Target-isolated isoQCD nucleon / matter-scale closure | PASS |

At this v23 working checkpoint, **Rows 0/0.1/0.2/0.3/0.4, Row 20.1, and Rows 19–29 execute with PASS verdicts** under their encoded acceptance conditions. PASS is an internal gate result; it is not a substitute for independent scientific validation.

## ZS — Zero State foundational preflight

ZS is executed before the historical numbered validation rows using execution label `Row 0`. This label does **not** renumber the historical UTFANSWF rows.

The gate hardens the manuscript construction as:

```text
Zero/reference configuration
  -> vanishing one-point structure
  -> positive self-adjoint quadratic kernel
  -> non-negative quadratic form
  -> maximum-entropy Gaussian
  -> SWF-ISM handoff
```

Claim boundary:

- ZS is a distinguished reference configuration; global uniqueness is not claimed.
- The executable gate does not require every admissible operator itself to have zero spectrum.
- The construction operator is implemented as a typed map, not a commutator with a state/configuration.
- Finite-dimensional kernels are structural implementation probes, not physical continuum-kernel predictions.
- ZS introduces no physical mass, length, time, coupling, or cosmological scale.

See `research/zero_state/ZS_FOUNDATION_SPEC.md`.

## SWF-ISM — Information-state foundational preflight

SWF-ISM is executed after ZS using execution label `0.1`. This is a harness-ordering label only and does **not** renumber the historical UTFANSWF rows.

The gate validates:

- normalized nonnegative information states on `S^2`;
- the `4*pi` sphere measure and low-order spherical-harmonic orthonormality;
- `a00 = 1/sqrt(4*pi)` and vanishing higher modes for the neutral uniform state;
- Shannon/relative-entropy identities and maximum-entropy dominance of the uniform state;
- exponential-family `log Z` derivative identities;
- an idempotent `SO(2)_z` averaging projector that removes `m != 0` content;
- a synthetic nonnegative spectral-weight consistency probe.

Claim boundary: SWF-ISM does not perform ANSWF EFT positivity, SANSWF gauge/BFB/unitarity enforcement, or make a physical particle-spectrum prediction.

See `research/swf_ism/SWF_ISM_FOUNDATION_SPEC.md`.

## ANSWF — EFT admissibility preflight

ANSWF (`0.2`) checks the forward-dispersion/optical-theorem sign consequences at the declared S-matrix boundary, including single-scalar positivity, mixed copositivity, and gravity-pole subtraction consistency. The S-matrix axioms are treated as assumptions, not as results derived from ZS/SWF-ISM.

See `research/answf/ANSWF_EFT_POSITIVITY_SPEC.md`.

## SANSWF — symmetry, BFB, and tree-level unitarity preflight

SANSWF (`0.3`) constructs the SU(5) generator algebra, checks the canonical `SU(5)->SU(3)xSU(2)xU(1)` adjoint mass operator, hardens the BFB cone for the actual `Tr(Sigma^4)` invariant, and diagonalizes the complete 406-channel Higgs+adjoint tree-level contact matrix.

At the benchmark `(lambda_H,lambda_A,lambda_p)=(0.13,0.20,0.10)`:

```text
max |lambda_eig| = 2.066545993132811
max |a0|         = 0.041112626241729615
```

Legacy shorthand values `|a0|~0.12` and `lambda_eig~1.2` are not used by the executable v23 gate.

See `research/sanswf/SANSWF_SYMMETRY_STABILITY_SPEC.md`.

## UTFANSWF — unified embedding preflight

UTFANSWF (`0.4`) explicitly checks `10 + 5bar` SU(5) cubic-anomaly cancellation, the SM anomaly-free decomposition, a type-I seesaw benchmark, protected two-loop unification existence, and exact-`Z6` proton-stability propagation.

Current protected unification checkpoint:

```text
M_U = 1.661424572022e16 GeV
relative inverse-coupling spread = 0.03523170047%
```

The primitive blind `alpha_U^-1 = 8*pi` boundary remains open and is reported rather than hidden (`~1.14564%` old electromagnetic holdout error).

The old conventional finite `DeltaB=1` proton-lifetime forecast is preserved as a historical branch, not an active v23 prediction. `datasets/unification_tau.yaml` is likewise preserved but marked historical/inactive in `datasets/v23_active_registry.json`.

See `research/utfanswf_embedding/UTFANSWF_EMBEDDING_SPEC.md`.

## Row 19 — hardened executable core

Row 19 no longer uses the historical toy two-coupling FRG slice, the toy beta-function Jacobian, or hard-coded zero PPN/GW deviations as its active evidence. The v23 runner now executes:

```text
FRG direct printed-equation benchmark:
  g*      = 0.875888555049176
  lambda* = 0.156604266763380
  theta   = 1.866547073337 +/- 2.352567209244 i

PPN benchmark from alpha0=2.5e-3, beta0=0.05:
  gamma-1 = -1.24999218755e-5
  beta-1  =  1.56248046893e-7

Flat-CPL complex-step vs central-difference derivative validation:
  max relative error ~ 8.90e-9
  acceptance <= 1e-3
```

The FRG module directly solves the Einstein-Hilbert/Litim beta functions printed in the primary source cited by the manuscript. The numerical values printed later in that source differ from the direct solution of its printed equations; v23 records that discrepancy without guessing its cause.

The canonical EH+R^2 tensor map is now executed rather than represented by independent GW knobs: `alpha1=0`, `cT^2=1`, `mT^2=0`, `Mstar^2=M_Pl^2[1+R/(3m_s^2)]`, `nu=-(1+z)R'(z)/(3m_s^2+R)`, and `dL_GW/dL_EM=sqrt([1+R0/(3m_s^2)]/[1+Rz/(3m_s^2)])`. The only unfrozen canonical propagation scale is the already-owned IR scalaron mass `m_s`. General `R_mn R^mn` / nonminimal `phi R` extensions and the full curvature-aware compressed Jacobian remain open.

The original toy Row 19 runner is preserved unchanged under `research/row19/` for provenance.

See `research/row19/ROW19_EXECUTABLE_SCOPE_V23.md`.

## Row 25 — stress-registry hardening

The preserved `stress_registry.yaml` is a v19 artifact. Row 25 now resolves its six test families against live v23 gates rather than stale static pass flags, and it no longer writes results back into `datasets/stress_report.csv`. New resolved outputs live under `results/row25_stress/`.

The historical registry's single joint CMB/BAO/SN/JWST CCG, unexplained CIG uncertainty-width statistic, optional nonzero reflective echo extension, and full 6–60 ueV axion direct-coverage test remain explicit boundaries rather than being silently counted as executed. The canonical Row-23 echo amplitude itself is closed at zero.

See `research/row25/ROW25_STRESS_EXECUTABLE_SCOPE_V23.md`.

## Row 20.1 — Preserved July-2026 distributed H0 master record

Row 20 remains the critical compressed-cosmology gate. Row 20.1 preserves and machine-checks the July 26, 2026 post-release H0 Master Record v1.

The record distinguishes:

- historical published v22 distributed result: approximately `72.7 km/s/Mpc`;
- preserved July-2026 distributed/channel-node candidate: `73.1342021175366 km/s/Mpc` (not the active v23 derived H0);
- aggregate ACT + complete-DESI result: `PASS_CANDIDATE`, p approximately `0.140667`;
- mandatory frozen ACT-plus-construction subset at the historical BAO node: `FAIL`, p approximately `0.0177795`;
- held-out DESI subset: `STRONG PASS`, p approximately `0.729633`;
- localized `z=0.706` construction pair: `FAIL`, p approximately `0.0218101`;
- single-global-H0 substitution: required `CATASTROPHIC FAIL` negative control.

The post-hoc BAO-node simultaneous-pass interval is preserved as a diagnostic only and is not promoted to a derived node. Active v23 Row 20 now scores the unmodified correlated BAO vector directly and derives the official D_M/r_d ↔ D_H/r_d local Jacobian/covariance map. A new distributed H0 remains OPEN until the BAO channel node is independently derived and all downstream H0 quantities are recalculated. A PASS for Row 20.1 means the complete favorable/adverse record is preserved and internally reproduced; it does not prove that the Hubble tension is resolved.

See `research/h0_extended/README.md`.


## Row 20.4 — JWST diagnostic record

The v23 bundle reproduces the archived eight-point `JWST_UVLF_like` calculation exactly:

```text
chi2 = 5.511946476301458
historical assumed nu = 8
chi2/nu = 0.6889933095376822
RMS residual = 0.10348530589493715
```

The original archived report explicitly labeled the PASS status **UNDECIDED** because no standalone JWST threshold/rule was present in that run. Accordingly, Row 20.4 PASS means **diagnostic-record reproducibility**, not physical JWST validation. The full UVLF/SFRD/stellar-mass/sizes/lines pipeline remains open.

A dated manuscript headline reports `JWST (diag.) chi2/nu = 1.102`; no executable artifact in the current bundle was found that reproduces that value. It is preserved as a historical manuscript discrepancy for v23 document reconciliation rather than silently replaced.

See `research/jwst_diagnostic/README.md`.

## Row 21 — Axion prediction band versus comparison coverage

The v23 Row 21 gate distinguishes the **declared prediction/search band** from the narrower range directly represented by the current root comparison tables:

```text
Declared rounded prediction band: 6–60 ueV
Current root comparison coverage:  10–60 ueV
```

The underlying standard mass/decay-constant relation maps `f_a = 10^12 -> 10^11 GeV` to unrounded endpoints `5.7 -> 57 ueV`, corresponding to the historical rounded `6–60 ueV` search band. The current `axion_pred.csv` / `axion_limit95.csv` files begin at `10 ueV`; the gate does not invent data below that point. A Row 21 PASS means a non-empty tested portion of the declared band remains allowed under the current comparison table, **not** that the entire 6–60 ueV band has direct root-table exclusion coverage.

See `datasets/axion_prediction_band_v23.json`.


## Row 24 — AI metric-scope hardening

The shipped `ai_guardrail_benchmark.csv` contains higher-is-better classification-like AUC values. The manuscript instead defines `AUC` as the time integral of validation loss and requires a lower constrained/baseline ratio. Those are different metrics.

Row 24 now reproduces the shipped table without claiming it implements the manuscript loss-AUC experiment. The original validation-loss time series is not present in the bundle, and no per-step privacy-accountant or permission-lattice logs are shipped. Accordingly, the full learning-efficiency and runtime safety-rail gate remains OPEN.

See `research/row24/ROW24_AI_EXECUTABLE_SCOPE_V23.md`.

## Row 22 — Neutral Zone full declared gate

Row 22 now enforces the complete declared NZ condition rather than only the spectral-radius half:

```text
smin_L > 0
smin_U > 0
rho_max <= 1 - eps_m
```

Current shipped values are `smin_L=0.14`, `smin_U=0.09`, `rho_max=0.92`, and `eps_m=0.05`; all three checks pass. The earlier executable behavior that merely printed the two slacks while gating only `rho_max` is superseded by this v23 hardening.

## Row 23 — Kerr QNM benchmark / canonical echo closure

Row 23 is now scoped to what its executable actually tests. It compares the fundamental Kerr `(l,m,n)=(2,2,0)` frequency and damping time against the shipped benchmark events and retains the existing fractional-error acceptance limits.

A Row 23 PASS means **the Kerr QNM benchmark passes and the canonical stationary EH+R^2 tensor handoff closes at zero echo reflectivity**: `R_NZH=0`, `epsilon_1=0`, `Upsilon=0`. This is not an echo detection claim. A nonzero reflective NZH response would require additional independently derived dynamics and remains a separate noncanonical extension. The legacy direct scalar equality between axion and echo recycling is retired in favor of one response operator with channel projections, so Row 21 remains independent.

## Row 27 — Fine-structure checkpoint

Row 27 preserves the legitimate blind intermediate checkpoint and verification provenance while explicitly keeping the final source-complete electroweak handoff open. It does not claim a completed final derivation of `1/137` or completed independent verification.

## Row 28 — Proton stability

Row 28 preserves the exact-`Z6` structural proton-stability candidate:

- `Delta B = 1` forbidden.
- `Delta B = 2` forbidden.
- Selection rule: `Delta B = 3*k`.
- The primitive UV alpha boundary remains an explicitly open diagnostic.
- No trinucleon lifetime is claimed because the relevant Wilson coefficient/scale is not fixed.

## Row 29 — Result 04: isoQCD nucleon / matter-scale closure

Row 29 records:

- Gate: `proton_origin_isoqcd_nucleon_mass_closure`
- Status: `PASS_TARGET_ISOLATED_ISOQCD_NUCLEON_MASS_CLOSURE`
- Quantity: isospin-symmetric `N_f=2+1` QCD nucleon mass (`m_u=m_d=m_ud`, no QED)
- Model-averaged result:

```text
M_N^isoQCD = 941.223133 +/- 35.184030 MeV
```

Claim boundary:

- Proton/neutron mass was not used to choose the production data, fit model, scale, physical quark point, or stopping rule.
- Independent upstream Standard-Model/QCD quark masses are used.
- Current v22 does not derive the complete light/strange Yukawa spectrum.
- Production CLS gauge ensembles are external data.
- The quoted forward quantity is **isoQCD nucleon mass**, not a full charged-proton QCD+QED prediction.
- Historical proton-holdout exposure prevents describing this as a pristine first-ever blind prediction.
- No post-freeze correction or retuning is allowed.

## Outputs

The canonical run writes results under `results/`, including:

- `results/REPORT.md` — human-readable report
- `results/results.json` — machine-readable summary
- `results/ledger.jsonl` — audit ledger

Row-specific provenance and research records are retained under `results/`, `research/`, and `docs/`.

## Detailed extension notes

See:

- `README_ROWS27_28_RESEARCH_EXTENSION.txt`
- `README_ROW29_RESULT04_RESEARCH_EXTENSION.txt`

## Author

Ronald L. Alexander  
ronald.l.alexander@outlook.com

## v23 final cosmology hardening status

The final hardening pass changes the **active Row 20 interpretation**, not the frozen v22 publication:

- CMB acoustic scale now uses `l_A = pi D_M(z*) / r_s(z*)`; the former hand-entered `cmb_calibration=1.022` is retained only as an ignored legacy value.
- BAO `D_M/H` is scored directly with its unmodified correlated covariance; the old residual-derived NZ/CFGL correction is historical diagnostic-only.
- The official `D_M/r_d` and `D_H/r_d=c/(H r_d)` local Jacobian/covariance map is explicit.
- The former sweep-selected SN slope is no longer inserted into the theory vector; intercept and linear redshift slope are profiled as covariance-weighted nuisance parameters with two nuisance degrees of freedom charged.
- The shipped SN and 80-point GW files are stress/proxy datasets and are executed diagnostically but **excluded from the Critical observational denominator**.

Under the unchanged Critical threshold `chi2/dof <= 1.25`, the current core CMB+BAO slice gives `chi2=11.1573000448` for `8` effective degrees of freedom, `chi2/dof=1.3946625056`, so **Row 20 = FAIL on the hardened current slice**. This FAIL is preserved; the threshold is not relaxed and proxy points are not restored to rescue it.

## August 19, 2026 — Frog 8/8 research-overlay closeout

The canonical 18 gate outputs above remain historical executable records under their declared scopes. A newer private research closeout is preserved under `research/frog_closeout/` and **does not rewrite Rows 27 or 29**.

Current research-board disposition: **Frog 8/8 GREEN at the research-derivation level**. Items 01 and 05 are unified by one target-free nonperturbative-QCD electromagnetic generating-functional construction. Production-scale numerical HVP/nucleon-QED execution and independent verification remain pending and are not claimed.

The canonical command also runs `research/frog_closeout/verify_frog_closeout.py` as an auxiliary integrity check. This check is not counted as a nineteenth canonical gate. It fails closed if the Frog source manifest is damaged or if protected `main.tex` / `main.pdf` hashes change.

