Ground-State Light Hadron Spectroscopy over Finite Substrate

The light hadron spectrum is reconstructed over a finite relational arithmetic substrate, on a single $\Om$-hard scale. A baryon is the colour-neutral invariant of the triality frame, the determinant residue $\Lambda^3=\mathbf1$ (baryon number), forced by the gluon residue $0$ and completing the Carrier-residue series photon $2$, gluon $0$, hadron $1$. Its constituents are the wrapped composites of confinement, so each mass is $M_B=\sig\,[\,f_{\mathrm{fl}}+\kappa_{\mathrm{hf}}\,g_{\mathrm{spin}}\,]+\Delta^{\mathrm{EM}}$, the confinement scale $\sig\sim\LQCD$ times dimensionless structure, and the scale cancels in every flavour and spin relation.

Preprint: preprints202506.1507.v2. Validation notebook: Open in Colab (16/16 checks passing).

The construction’s dependency structure is collected here in one place, so that every result above can be traced to its inputs and the surface a reader must accept is made explicit. Each row carries one status: a single tag, or the defined compound T$\,\vert\,$Ω (a theorem whose dimensionless content is derived and whose absolute scale is $\Om$-hard), the parts separately citable. The blocks: A the inputs, B the five realisations, C the derived rows (C20C23 the residue resolutions of § 3.8), X what the construction explains (§ 4.2), P the falsifiable predictions (§ 4.1), V the machine verification, Z the $\Om$-hard residue. The source column names the body statement and, for every machine-verified row, the family identifiers of the validation package (had.su3_singlet, had.su3f_relations, …; one family per script, § 6), the package’s records citing the rows in return. The corpus master ledger carries B1, C1C10 and C14 under its row 00:I5, B5, C15 and C18 under its row 00:I6, C16, C17 and C19 under its row 00:I7, and P4 under its row 00:N1.

Tags

I
Import. A standard result or measured datum used here without reproof.
R
Realisation. A forced identification of a physical term with the substrate object it denotes: constitutive, not interpretive; defended by its registered consequences; killed by the falsifier stated in its row.
D
Definition. A naming or set-up move, carrying no empirical content.
T
Theorem. Derived within this paper from the rows above it; where a family identifier is named, its content is verified by the validation package.
E
Prediction. A falsifiable consequence of the rows above, stated with its falsifier and its present confrontation.
Ω
$\Om$-hard. Decided by the totality; not closeable by a bounded observer.
#DescriptionStatusSource
A. Inputs: imported, not derived here
A1p35001Substrate arithmetic: $\F_\Om$, the multiplicative cycle, the Frobenius $C_3$ orbit, the quarter-turn $Q_4$, the admissible residue $\Om\equiv5\,(\mathrm{mod}\,12)$.I
A2p35002Colour $\SU(3)$ as the special unitary group of a Hermitian three-form; rank the minimal triality frame; centre $\Z_3$; the gluon; the confinement area law $\sigma>0$ and the string tension $c_1(\beta)=\langle\chi_f/N\rangle_w$.I
A3p35003The confinement scale $\sig\sim\LQCD=M_Pe^{-2\pi/b_0\alpha_s}$, dimensional transmutation, $\Om$-hard.I
A4p35004Mass is a winding rate; a composite cardinality is the total winding, $\sim99\%$ gluon binding for the nucleon.I
A5p35005The observable is a small residue: confinement is the frame-normalisation wrapping $\Om$-hard quark residues into small exact hadron residues.I
A6p35006Flavour map: generation count three; $\chi_3,\chi_6$ giving $s,c,b$; the current-quark mass ratios, and the up–down isospin breaking with $\bar\theta=0$.I
A7p35007The constituent-quark chromomagnetic hyperfine mechanism and the $\SU(3)_F$ mass-formula templates.I
[De R'ujula et al. 1975; Okubo 1962]
A8p35008Measured anchors: the isospin-averaged octet and decuplet masses; the vector endpoints $\rho,\phi$.I
[Particle Data Group 2024]
A9p35009The electromagnetic coupling $\alpha$, the measured fine-structure constant, entering the electromagnetic self-energy.I
[Particle Data Group 2024]
B. Realisations: mathematics $\to$ physics (the forced identifications, each with its falsifier)
B1p35010A baryon is the totally antisymmetric $\varepsilon_{abc}$ invariant of the colour $\mathbf 3$; colour-singlet $=$ centre-neutral, triality $0\,(\mathrm{mod}\,3)$ (A2). Falsifier: an asymptotic state of non-zero triality (a free quark or coloured hadron).R
§ 3.1; had.su3_singlet
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master: 00:I5
B2p35011A constituent quark is the wrapped composite, a current-quark seed dressed by a fixed share of the confinement wrap (A5, A6). Falsifier: constituent masses not one seed plus a fixed wrap share across the octet and decuplet (P2, P10 failing).R
§ 3.1
B3p35012The chromomagnetic hyperfine interaction is the quark spin coupled to the colour curvature two-form, the spin-two partner of the string-tension plaquette (A2, A7). Falsifier: $A_{\mathrm{light}}/\sig$ failing to track one character sum across the heavy-quark series.R
§ 3.4
B4p35013The strange seed enters $f_{\mathrm{fl}}$ additively at leading order, one wrap increment per strange constituent, set by the $\chi_3$ current-mass ratio (A6). Falsifier: a non-linear strangeness dependence, breaking the equal decuplet spacing.R
§ 3.3
B5p35014The observable is a Carrier residue and stability is its indicator: a stable colourless object sits at a small exact residue (the minimal-wrap proton, the light nuclei), decay being frame-normalisation toward it. Falsifier: a stable colourless $B=1$ state below the proton, or strong/electromagnetic proton decay.R
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master: 00:I6
C. Derived: theorems and consequences within this paper
C1p35015Colour $\SU(3,\F_2)$ built exactly: order $216$, centre $\Z_3$ the triality centre; the colour-singlet baryon is the centre-neutral $\varepsilon_{abc}$ invariant $\Lambda^3\mathbf3=\mathbf1$.T
Prop. 1; had.su3_singlet
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master: 00:I5
C2p35016Gell-Mann–Okubo $\tfrac12(N+\Xi)=\tfrac14(3\Lambda+\Sigma)$: $2N+2\Xi-3\Lambda-\Sigma=0$ identically, scale-cancelling.T
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master: 00:I5
C3p35017Decuplet equal spacing $\Sigma^{*}-\Delta=\Xi^{*}-\Sigma^{*}=\Omega-\Xi^{*}=\beta$: the second differences vanish identically.T
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master: 00:I5
C4p35018Colour factor of the singlet $\sum_{i<j}\bvec\lambda_i\!\cdot\!\bvec\lambda_j=-8$ ($-\tfrac83$ per pair) from $C_2(\mathbf3)=\tfrac43$, $C_2(\mathbf1)=0$.T
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master: 00:I5
C5p35019Spin structure $g_{\mathrm{spin}}=\half S(S+1)-\tfrac98$, octet $-\tfrac34$, decuplet $+\tfrac34$; eigenvalues $+2,-2$; separation $M_{\mathbf{10}}-M_{\mathbf8}=\tfrac32A_{\mathrm{light}}$.T
1/1
master: 00:I5
C6p35020$A_{\mathrm{light}}=\sig\,c_{\mathrm{mag}}(\beta)$, with $c_{\mathrm{mag}}$ a colour-curvature character sum of the $c_1$ family ($c_1=\beta/18+\cdots$ reproduced); the dimensionless pattern exact, the absolute scale $\Om$-hard.T Ω
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master: 00:I5
C7p35021Coleman–Glashow $(n-p)+(\Xi^-{-}\Xi^0)=\Sigma^-{-}\Sigma^+$: an exact one-body identity, the two-body electromagnetic term cancelling.T
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master: 00:I5
C8p35022The ordering $M_n>M_p$: the $d-u$ seed exceeds the charge-squared electromagnetic term ($\sum Q^2=1$ for $p$, $\tfrac23$ for $n$), fixing $m_d>m_u$.T
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master: 00:I5
C9p35023$M_\Sigma>M_\Lambda$: hyperfine fine structure, the light $(ud)$ pair spin-$1$ vs spin-$0$, $M_\Sigma-M_\Lambda=a_{ll}(1-m_l/m_s)>0$.T
1/1
master: 00:I5
C10p35024Heavy-quark spin decoupling ($a_{iQ}\sim1/m_Q$): $\Lambda_Q$ a spin-$0$ light diquark; $M_{\Lambda_b}-M_{\Lambda_c}=M_B-M_D$; the $1/m_Q$ hyperfine ratio.T Ω
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master: 00:I5
C11p35025Second-order decuplet relation $M_\Delta-3M_{\Sigma^*}+3M_{\Xi^*}-M_\Omega=0$ (vanishing third difference), exact in the linear-seed pairwise-hyperfine model.T
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C12p35026Octet–decuplet hyperfine links $M_\Sigma-M_\Lambda=\tfrac23[(M_\Delta-M_N)-(M_{\Sigma^*}-M_\Sigma)]$ and $M_{\Sigma^*}-M_\Sigma=M_{\Xi^*}-M_\Xi$, parameter-free.T
1/1
C13p35027EM splitting structure: one-body $\sum Q_i^2$ and two-body $\sum_{i<j}Q_iQ_j$ exact ($p$: $1,0$; $n$: $\tfrac23,-\tfrac13$); $\Delta_{\mathrm{EM}}=\alpha\,\sig\times$structure, the absolute reducing to the imported $\alpha$ (A9) and $\sig$ (A3), no new residue.T Ω
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C14p35028$c_{\mathrm{mag}}$ the adjoint (colour-octet) plaquette character sum, $\mathbf8\subset\mathbf3\otimes\bar{\mathbf3}$ ($\mathbf8\not\subset\mathbf3\otimes\mathbf3$), leading $\beta^2/36$ at $O(\beta^2)$, one order finer than the tension $c_1=\beta/18$.T
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master: 00:I5
C15p35029Baryon $=$ Carrier residue $1$: the colourless content of $\Lambda^\bullet(\mathbf3)$ is $(1,0,0,1)$; the baryon is the determinant $\Lambda^3=\det$ at $k=N=3$ (residue $1$, baryon number), forced by the gluon residue $0$ (the fundamental has no invariant vector on $\SU(3,\F_2)$); parallel to photon $2$, gluon $0$.T
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master: 00:I6
C16p35030Single-scale reduction: $M_H=\sig\,\lambda_H$, the three anchored masses read as one $\Om$-hard scale $\sig$ and three sub-horizon numbers ($\lambda_l$, $m_s/m_l$, $\lambda_{\mathrm{hf}}$); $M_\Lambda-M_N=m_s-m_l$ exact (hyperfine-cancelling); the finite-stage eigenvalues $\varepsilon_k^{(G)}\in\mathrm{Spec}(H^{(N)})$ exact, the decimal Airy values the [approx] readout, $\Om$-stable.T
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master: 00:I7
C17p35031The baryon scale: the computed finite eigenvalue $E_0\simeq2.232$ (operator $H_G=T_G^{1/2}+R_G$, no baryon mass entering); $M_N=E_0\sig$ predicts the nucleon to $4.6\%$, the absolute prediction carrying the imported $\Om$-hard $\sig$ (A3). $\lambda_l,\lambda_{\mathrm{hf}}$ evaluated forward from $\{N,\beta\}$ (C19), $\Om$-stable.T Ω
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master: 00:I7
C18p35032Meson Carrier residue: the $q\bar q$ colour singlet is the contraction of $\mathbf3\otimes\bar{\mathbf3}=\mathbf1\oplus\mathbf8$ (the Hermitian invariant), residue $1$, $B=0$ (triality $0$); the residue series closes (photon $2$, gluon $0$, baryon $1$, meson $1$); on the same frame the vector-nonet equal spacing $2M_{K^{*}}=M_\rho+M_\phi$ is an exact identity of linear strangeness.T
§ 3.11, Prop. 15; had.vector_nonet
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master: 00:I6
C19p35033Forward constituent eigenvalues: $\lambda_l,\lambda_{\mathrm{hf}}$ computed from $\{N{=}3,\beta\}$ with no measured baryon mass — $\lambda_{\mathrm{hf}}$ the colour-magnetic contact ($c_{\mathrm{adj}}{=}\beta^2/36$, the exact overlap $|u'(0)|^2{=}1$, $\alpha_s(\sig)$ transmutation-pinned), $\lambda_l$ from $E_0$ and the exact spin split; matching $0.44,0.85$ to constituent-model accuracy, the margin set by the linear-potential approximation.T
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master: 00:I7
C20p35034Residue resolution, second order: the $\SU(3)_F$ residuals (decuplet third difference $6$ MeV, octet $\mathbf{27}$-plet $0.57\%$) are sub-horizon, $O(\varepsilon_s^2)$ of a convergent strange-breaking expansion, $\Om$-stable (Prop. 11).T
2/2
C21p35035Residue resolution, electromagnetic: the splitting magnitude $\Delta_{\mathrm{EM}}=\alpha\,\sig\times$[exact charge structure] reduces to the imported $\alpha$ (A9) and $\sig$ (A3), no new residue (C13); Coleman–Glashow and the orderings derived (C7C9).T Ω
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C22p35036Residue resolution, heavy flavour: the heavy-baryon absolute masses $M(\Lambda_Q)=m_Q+O(\sig)$ reduce to the imported scales (A3, A6); the heavy-quark-symmetry and $1/m_Q$ relations derived (C10).T Ω
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C23p35037Residue resolution, hyperfine: the dimensionless $A_{\mathrm{light}}/\sig$ is a ratio of $\Om$-independent character sums (C14), $\Om$-stable, sub-horizon; the absolute $A_{\mathrm{light}}=\sig\,c_{\mathrm{mag}}$ is $\sig$-scaled (A3, Prop. 11).T
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X. What the construction explains: the hadron structure the Standard Model fits
X1p35038The baryon is three quarks because the only colourless escape from the gluon residue $0$ is the determinant $\Lambda^N=\det$, which requires exactly $N=3$.T
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X2p35039The baryon is colour-neutral as the centre-neutral, triality-$0$ invariant $\varepsilon_{abc}$ of the triality frame, a derived singlet.T
Prop. 1; had.su3_singlet
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X3p35040Baryon number is the Carrier residue $1$, the determinant winding, so its conservation is the invariance of $\Lambda^3$, on the same footing as the photon residue $2$ and the gluon residue $0$.T
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X4p35041The Gell-Mann–Okubo relation is exact, the scale-cancelling identity $2N+2\Xi-3\Lambda-\Sigma=0$ of linear flavour breaking, a derived sum rule.T
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X5p35042The decuplet is equally spaced because the strange seed enters the wrap additively.T
1/1
X6p35043The decuplet is heavier than the octet by the colour-magnetic curvature invariant, the colour factor $-8$ times the spin $\half S(S+1)-\tfrac98$, a derived sign and pattern.T
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X7p35044The proton is stable as the minimal-wrap residue-$1$ state, with no lighter $B=1$ residue to reach.T
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X8p35045The neutron is heavier than the proton because the $d-u$ seed exceeds the charge-squared electromagnetic term ($\sum Q^2=1$ for $p$, $\tfrac23$ for $n$), a derived ordering.T
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X9p35046$\Sigma$ is heavier than $\Lambda$ by the spin-$1$ versus spin-$0$ light-pair hyperfine, a derived splitting of two states of identical quark content.T
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X10p35047The isospin splittings obey Coleman–Glashow exactly at one body, $(n{-}p)+(\Xi^-{-}\Xi^0)=\Sigma^-{-}\Sigma^+$, a derived identity.T
1/1
X11p35048The heavy baryons follow heavy-quark symmetry, $M_{\Lambda_b}-M_{\Lambda_c}=M_B-M_D$ by spin decoupling, so the baryon and meson heavy-mass differences are one quantity.T
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X12p35049The vector mesons equally space, $2M_{K^{*}}=M_\rho+M_\phi$, the meson residue $1$ ($B=0$) on the same frame and scale as the baryons.T
Prop. 15; had.vector_nonet
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X13p35050The spectrum rests on one scale, $\sqrt\sigma=\LQCD$, the lone $\Om$-hard residue; every dimensionless mass ratio is a sub-horizon eigenvalue.T
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P. Falsifiable predictions (formerly D1–D10, in the body’s order)
P1p35051Gell-Mann–Okubo exact at leading order; PDG $0.57\%$, the bounded $\chi_3^2$ second order. Falsifier: a violation beyond the second-order insertion.E
1/1
P2p35052Decuplet equal spacing exact; PDG $9.2\%$ spread, $\beta\simeq146.8$ MeV, the same second order. Falsifier: a non-equal spacing beyond it.E
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P3p35053The hyperfine pattern $g_{\mathrm{spin}}=\half S(S+1)-\tfrac98$, octet $-\tfrac34$, decuplet $+\tfrac34$, separation $\tfrac32A_{\mathrm{light}}$ with $A_{\mathrm{light}}\simeq195$ MeV. Falsifier: a spin splitting outside this pattern.E
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P4p35054Proton effective stability: the proton is the minimal colour-neutral wrap, with no allowed strong or electromagnetic channel toward a smaller residue; the single neutron transition is one flavour flip, the $\beta$ channel [Akhtman & Voether 2026]. Falsifier: an observed proton decay or a strong/electromagnetic baryon-number-violating process.E
master: 00:N1
P5p35055No exotic light multiplets beyond the $\mathbf 8$ and $\mathbf{10}$ at leading wrap order. Falsifier: a confirmed light baryon outside the $\mathbf 8$ and $\mathbf{10}$ at the wrap scale.E
P6p35056Coleman–Glashow exact at one body; PDG $0.79\%$, the residual the two-body electromagnetic term; the orderings $M_n>M_p$ and $M_\Sigma>M_\Lambda$ fixed. Falsifier: a Coleman–Glashow violation beyond the two-body term.E
1/1
P7p35057Heavy-quark symmetry $M_{\Lambda_b}-M_{\Lambda_c}=M_B-M_D$ ($2.4\%$) and the $1/m_Q$ hyperfine ratio $(M_{\Sigma_c^{*}}-M_{\Sigma_c})/(M_{\Sigma^{*}}-M_{\Sigma})\simeq m_s/m_c$. Falsifier: a heavy-baryon spectrum off the spin-decoupled, $1/m_Q$-scaled pattern.E
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P8p35058Second-order decuplet relation (7), the vanishing third difference; PDG $6$ MeV ($0.36\%$). Falsifier: a third difference beyond the few-MeV third-order scale.E
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P9p35059Vector-meson nonet equal spacing $2M_{K^{*}}=M_\rho+M_\phi$ (PDG $0.42\%$) and ideal mixing $M_\omega\simeq M_\rho$; $\rho,\phi$ anchor, $K^{*},\omega$ predicted $<1\%$; the pseudoscalars are Goldstone bosons (a distinct chiral mechanism). Falsifier: a vector nonet off the linear-strangeness pattern.E
Prop. 15; had.vector_nonet
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P10p35060Absolute octet$+$decuplet spectrum from the $\Om$-hard scale $\sig$ and three sub-horizon eigenvalues ($\lambda_l$, $m_s/m_l$, $\lambda_{\mathrm{hf}}$, the two constituent ratios computed forward, C19): five parameter-free predictions within $1.1\%$ (Table A3) and three sub-horizon eigenvalues ($ _l=m_l/ $, $m_s/m_l$, $ _{ {hf (tab:absolute), p. 10">2). Falsifier: a predicted mass off beyond the traced second order.E
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P11p35061The $\Lambda$$N$ gap is the strange constituent excess, $M_\Lambda-M_N=m_s-m_l=176.8$ MeV, hyperfine- and scale-free (10). Falsifier: a gap inconsistent with the strange seed and the $\Xi,\Sigma$ splittings.E
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V. Machine verification
V1p35062The validation package finite-ring-space/src/35-hadrons: the fifteen scripts and the figure script as written — had.su3_singlet, had.carrier_residue, had.su3f_relations, had.su3f_second_order, had.hyperfine_charsum, had.isospin_cottingham, had.heavy_flavour, had.em_heavy_cmag, had.absolute_masses, had.vector_nonet, had.subhorizon_resolution, had.confinement_completion, had.final_resolution, had.confinement_closure, had.forward_eigenvalues, had.make_figures — run through one registry, one family per script, its micro-checks the script’s own verdict lines (fourteen assert their identities and print a report, had.forward_eigenvalues one line per check) together with the registry’s predicates on the script’s namespace and output (every headline numeral pinned by a labelled check in hadcommon.py), each family naming the rows it witnesses; the notebook 35-hadrons-main.ipynb executes them in the browser and the driver run_all.py writes results.json.T
§ 6; run_all
V2p35063The discipline, recorded per family as its kind: EXACT — finite-field ($\F_4$), integer or exact-rational identities only, no float in the script (the colour frame, the residue); MIXED — an exact core with a labelled [approx] decimal display of the PDG confrontation, verdict on the core and on the stated residual by tolerance (the relations, the hyperfine pattern, isospin, heavy flavour, the scales, the spectrum, the vector nonet, the discriminator); PROFINITE — additionally a labelled [profinite approx] finite-grid eigenvalue, verdict by stated tolerance (the completion, the terminal classification, the baryon scale, the forward evaluation); CHART — the figure script.T
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V3p35064What the run does not decide: the $\Om$-hard scale (Z1) enters only as the labelled reading $\sig=440$ MeV of the eigenvalue confrontations (C17, P10); the PDG masses are [approx] anchors, not checks of the identities; the forward landing $\lambda_{\mathrm{hf}}$ (C19) is taken at the hyperfine-required coupling $0.93$, the transmutation value $1.0$ giving $0.475$; the exclusion P5 has no script; the contact overlap and the Airy tower are finite-grid readouts, converged across the tower, not closed-form identities.T
§ 5
Z. Residue: $\Om$-hard (formerly E5)
Z1p35065The sole $\Om$-hard input is the imported confinement scale $\sig\sim\LQCD$ (A3); the EM coupling $\alpha$ (A9) is an imported constant; the paper introduces no $\Om$-hard residue of its own.Ω
A3, A9; § 3.8

Ledger history

Ledger history. 2026-06-29: the predicate ledger A–C with the block D "Falsifiable predictions" (D1–D10) and the block E "Residue resolution" (E1–E5), the tag key I/B/D/T/Omega; 2026-09-11 (T0): B retired for R, the tag-key sentences and the legend brought to the corpus standard. 2026-09-14 (T26): the explanation list of Section "What the construction explains" becomes block X (X1X13); the predictions become block P tagged E (P1P9 the body’s list in its order, P8 the third-difference relation the body lists and the old block D lacked, P10P11 the absolute spectrum and the Lambda–N gap, formerly D8, D9; D1–D7, D10 become P1P7, P9); the residue resolutions E1–E4 (theorems) become C20C23, the Omega-hard residue E5 becomes Z1; C18 (meson residue) placed before C19 and extended with the vector equal-spacing identity; V added; every machine-verified row citing the family identifiers of the validation package (finite-ring-space/src/35-hadrons); accession keys assigned. No row retired.