HQIV Papers

This repository collects the LaTeX sources, build artifacts, and bibliographies for the HQIV (Horizon-Quantized Informational Vacuum) paper series. It is consumed as a git submodule by HQIV/hqiv-lean.

All publications go to the Zenodo HQIV community.

Publication order

The series is published in tiers so that each later paper can cite the earlier ones by their minted DOIs. Tier~0, all four Tier-1 foundation-extension records, Tier-2 #5 (TUFT+SM synthesis), and Tier-2 #6 (baryogenesis lock-in) are on Zenodo; remaining Tier-2+ entries are unpublished drafts queued in the order below.

Tier 0 — Already published on Zenodo (frozen)

#	Folder	Source .tex	DOI (latest version)	Concept DOI	Date	Bib key
0a	(top-level main paper)	main.tex	10.5281/zenodo.18899939	10.5281/zenodo.18794889	2026-03-07	ettinger2026hqiv
0b	lightcone_to_oshoracle/	octonion_lightcone_to_oshoracle.tex	10.5281/zenodo.19336553	10.5281/zenodo.19227897	2026-03-30	hqiv-lightcone-paper
0c	closure/	closure.tex (+ so8_closure_full_appendix.tex)	10.5281/zenodo.20214211	10.5281/zenodo.20214210	2026-05-15	hqiv-so8-paper

The lightcone record is scheduled for a v3 update (see "Working checklist" below). New versions reuse the same concept DOI and only mint a fresh version DOI; companion drafts cite the concept DOI so they keep resolving across versions (where a concept DOI exists).

Tier 1 — Foundation extension quartet (sequence-strict)

Each paper here is a direct mathematical/variational sequel to closure and must publish before the next so that companion \cite{...} keys resolve to live DOIs.

Published on Zenodo

#	Folder	Source .tex	DOI (version)	Date	Bib key
1	3d_causal_growth/	hqiv_3d_causal_growth_octonionic_gauge.tex	10.5281/zenodo.20415586	2026-05-27	hqiv-3d-growth-paper
2	octonionic_action/	hqiv_octonionic_action_and_uniqueness.tex	10.5281/zenodo.20416085	2026-05-27	hqiv-oct-action-paper
3	finite_mode_kirchhoff/	hqiv_finite_mode_kirchhoff_from_lattice_simplex.tex	10.5281/zenodo.20416564	2026-05-27	hqiv-kirchhoff-paper
4	thermodynamics_arrow/	hqiv_thermodynamics_and_arrow_of_time.tex	10.5281/zenodo.20478826	2026-05-31	hqiv-thermo-arrow-paper

Tier 2 — Standard Model and mass closure (combined foundation)

Published on Zenodo

#	Folder	Source .tex	DOI (version)	Date	Bib key
5	tuft_sm_lagrangian/	hqiv_tuft_sm_lagrangian_synthesis.tex	10.5281/zenodo.20601215	2026-06-08	hqiv-tuft-sm-lagrangian-paper
6	baryogenesis_lockin/	hqiv_baryogenesis_curvature_lockin.tex	10.5281/zenodo.20711255	2026-06-16	hqiv-baryogenesis-paper

Patch gauge consistency (2026-06): the TUFT+SM synthesis records proved finite SM anomaly-trace cancellation, topological-sector discharge, fibre-torsion subleading sector zeta, light-cone (\mathfrak{so}(8)) holonomy with weak/colour non-abelian charts, full four-edge SO(8) Wilson plaquettes (Hqiv/Physics/SO8PlaquetteHolonomy.lean), shell-to-harmonic limits, rapidity-phase Lorentz closure (Hqiv/Geometry/RapidityLorentzClosure.lean), and spatial-rotation Lorentz closure for flyby/CMB/fluid directional readouts (Hqiv/Geometry/SpatialRotationLorentzClosure.lean). Partial / open: Haar measure on rotated charts; general flat HQVM kinetic invariance under boostDiscretePotential41 (Hqiv/Physics/DiscreteActionStrongPoincareBridge.lean); continuum Wightman Poincaré — see hqiv_tuft_sm_lagrangian_synthesis.tex and papers/include/patch_theory_messaging.tex. Discharged on partial slice: Wilson–kinetic equivalence (ActionHolonomyGlue.wilsonKineticPlaquetteEquivalence_discharged); fullActionStrongPoincare_discharged.

Queued (unpublished)

#	Folder	Bib key	Role
7	nucleon_binding/	hqiv-nucleon-binding-paper	Binding energy and the weak force: single source hqiv_nucleon_binding_from_composite_trace.tex ($8\times8$ composite-trace nucleon masses through $A=4$; three-ledger $\beta$ tipping; lab agreement). Cites #5 and #6. Next in Tier-2 queue.
8	bbn/	hqiv-bbn-paper	BBN light elements from network weights + faithful stoichiometric integrator ($Y_p$, $D/H$, $^3$He/H, $^7$Li/H at $\eta_{\mathrm{paper}}$). Consumes lock-in $\eta$ (#6) and nucleon binding (#7).
—	gluon_curvature_artifact/	hqiv-gluon-curvature-note	Tier-2 closure: the gluon is the curvature artifact of the inner-Casimir trapping on the strong octonion channels; identical in form and scale to the composite-trace binding and the inner trapped-Casimir heavy gap. Cites the combined TUFT+SM synthesis (#5), the nucleon-binding note, and the Tier-1 record.
9	hep_decay_readout/	hqiv-hep-decay-paper	Heavy-flavour three-ledger decay readout: discrete multichannel rules, quarkonium EM contact $39/10$, branching without partial-width inputs; $87/87$ comparison discharge. Extends nucleon-binding $\beta$ tipping.

Lean formal proof notes

Folder	Source .tex	Role
factor_search_formalization/	hqiv_factor_search_formalization.tex	Formal audit note for the factor-search drivers, certificate soundness, and cost scaffolding.
goldbach_so4_so2_delta/	goldbach_so4_so2_delta.tex	Working Lean-backed reduction note for the SO(4) tangent carrier, selected SO(2)+Δ Goldbach parity channel, and threshold split into finite verification plus eventual selected-channel positivity.
s3_zeta_so4_projection/	hqiv_s3_zeta_so4_projection_closed_form.tex	S³ / SO(4) synthesis: harmonic--Δ closure, 45° quaternion projections, regional ζ(s) closed forms, polar decoupling and log edge, sector-zeta vs classical-ζ dictionary, HEP integration bridge (sec:hep-zeta-bridge); uses readout_dictionary_messaging.tex (not full patch contract). RH = proved equivalences with zero slack, not discharge.

Tier 3 — Applied phenomenology

#	Folder	Bib key	Role
10	longitudinal_em_force/	ettinger2026longitudinal	Axial wire force from the O-Maxwell phase-gradient term.
11	coronal_heating/	hqiv-coronal-paper	Direct application of #10 to coronal flux tubes; back-to-back companion.
12	omaxwell_fluid_chart/	hqiv-fluid-chart-paper	F2 fluid-closure chart companion to Action.lean / ModifiedMaxwell.lean.
13	orbital_flyby/	hqiv-flyby-paper	HQIV acceleration readouts: flybys, SPARC+WHIM disks, filament cross-match, long-term galaxy–filament evolution.
14	complex_time_stokes_bridge/	hqiv-complex-time-stokes-paper	Lattice time angle / lapse / zeta phase; Wick bridge to Stokes factors; functional PDE identity with TUFT Beltrami--NS on finite Hopf modes (not Millennium smoothness).

Witness data (not Zenodo tier papers)

Folder	Bib keys	Role
compact_object_witness/	hqiv-compact-object-witness-data, hqiv-pulsar-witness-data, hqiv-lagrangian-faithfulness-audit, atnf_psrcat, xao_atnf_pulsar_mirror, NICER/Shapiro keys	MHD equivalence paper + witness JSON; run compact_object_witness/regenerate_data.sh.

Archived (not republished)

• archive/lean_to_mass_spectrum/ — early internal working draft; content merged into the combined TUFT+SM synthesis (hqiv-tuft-sm-lagrangian-paper).
• archive/sm_lagrangian/ and archive/tuft_hqiv_dynamic_mass_spectrum/ — two internal working drafts (one on the Lagrangian sector projections, one on the TUFT/Hopf mass spectrum) that were consolidated into the single combined paper in tuft_sm_lagrangian/ before any release. They were never preprinted or deposited.
• archive/nucleon_binding_beta_decay/ — geometric binding + β-programme working copy; merged into nucleon_binding/hqiv_nucleon_binding_from_composite_trace.tex.
• rapidity_so8_closure/ → moves into archive/ next pass. Its own abstract identifies it as the long-form workspace draft of closure.tex; the published closure record (10.5281/zenodo.20214211) is the canonical version.

Cross-citation bib keys

When drafting any companion, use these keys when citing earlier work in the chain. They are the canonical keys carried in references.bib:

Folder	Bib key in references.bib
HQIV main (Zenodo only)	ettinger2026hqiv
closure/	hqiv-so8-paper
lightcone_to_oshoracle/	hqiv-lightcone-paper
3d_causal_growth/	hqiv-3d-growth-paper (Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.20415586, v1 2026-05-27)
octonionic_action/	hqiv-oct-action-paper (Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.20416085, v1 2026-05-27)
finite_mode_kirchhoff/	hqiv-kirchhoff-paper (Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.20416564, v1 2026-05-27)
thermodynamics_arrow/	hqiv-thermo-arrow-paper (Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.20478826, v1 2026-05-31)
tuft_sm_lagrangian/	hqiv-tuft-sm-lagrangian-paper (Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.20601215, v2 2026-06-08)
baryogenesis_lockin/	hqiv-baryogenesis-paper (Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.20711255, v1 2026-06-16)
nucleon_binding/	hqiv-nucleon-binding-paper
bbn/	hqiv-bbn-paper
gluon_curvature_artifact/	hqiv-gluon-curvature-note
hep_decay_readout/	hqiv-hep-decay-paper
longitudinal_em_force/	ettinger2026longitudinal
coronal_heating/	hqiv-coronal-paper
omaxwell_fluid_chart/	hqiv-fluid-chart-paper
orbital_flyby/	hqiv-flyby-paper
s3_zeta_so4_projection/	hqiv-s3-zeta-so4-paper
Lean library (GitHub)	hqiv-lean
Brodie quantised-inertia	brodie2026
Compact-object witness data	hqiv-compact-object-witness-data, hqiv-pulsar-witness-data, hqiv-lagrangian-faithfulness-audit
Pulsar catalogs / masses	atnf_psrcat, xao_atnf_pulsar_mirror, lorimer2004handbook, miller2019_j0030, riley2021_j0740, rutherford2024_msp_masses, freire2012_shapiro, antoniadis2013_ns_max, crombie2020_j0740

Standard chemistry / material-response references (used in nucleon_binding/ condensed-phase slots; not HQIV-specific): nistwebbook_h2o, crc2023handbook, petrenko2002ice, goerigk2017gmtkn55, gillespie1970vsepr, hecht2017optics, jackson1999, ashcroft1976ssp, atkins2018pchem, eyring1936viscosity, grimme2011d3, santra2013ice, brandenburg2016jctc, reilly2013mbd, gillan2016perspective.

Working checklist

Current focus — Nucleon binding (nucleon_binding/)

Tier-2 #7; cites published TUFT+SM synthesis (hqiv-tuft-sm-lagrangian-paper, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20601215) and published baryogenesis lock-in (hqiv-baryogenesis-paper, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20711255).

• Title and bib key aligned: Binding Energy and the Weak Force from HQIV Composite-Trace Weights (hqiv-nucleon-binding-paper).
• Publication-chain abstract matches Tier-2 #7 (after baryogenesis, before BBN).
• Reproducer index at nucleon_binding/scripts/README.md; authors.json present.
• Self-contained nucleon_binding/scripts.zip + scripts/MANIFEST.sha256 (refresh: python3 scripts/bundle_nucleon_binding_scripts.py).
• Lean support: lake build paper_nucleon_binding in hqiv-lean (PR #13).
• Reader-first pass on body Lean identifiers (intro + scope improved; appendix index remains canonical).
• Rebuild PDF locally (latexmk -pdf hqiv_nucleon_binding_from_composite_trace.tex; see nucleon_binding/README.md).
• Deposit on Zenodo (nucleon binding is next in Tier-2 queue).

Queued — Lightcone v3 tightening (lightcone_to_oshoracle/)

The DOI is already minted (concept 10.5281/zenodo.19227897); a tightened v3 will publish under the same concept DOI.

• Compress the megaparagraph abstract to ~150–200 words; keep result statements (R⁸ carrier, lossless QM bookkeeping, sparse update, α=3/5 / γ=2/5 forced, β consistency check, pilot-wave stance).
• Trim the "four-layer reader guide" to defer patch-QFT plumbing to include/patch_theory_messaging.tex (already \input-ed at line 84).
• Adopt include/release_archive_macros.tex for companion-code/DOI references currently hand-written near the top.
• Apply the reader-first writing convention (see "Writing conventions" below): pull every \lean{Hqiv/...} and \texttt{snake\_case} Lean identifier out of the body and abstract; replace each with a reader-friendly name \hyperref-linked to a single Lean module-index appendix.
• Add closure (10.5281/zenodo.20214211) and lightcone-self (10.5281/zenodo.19336553) records to references.bib as hqiv-so8-paper and hqiv-lightcone-paper. (Both are referenced by Tier 1+ drafts already.)
• Rebuild the PDF, push v3 to Zenodo on the existing concept DOI.

Next sessions (queued, not started)

• Tier 1 #1: 3d_causal_growth/ published on Zenodo (10.5281/zenodo.20415586, 2026-05-27).
• Tier 1 #2: octonionic_action/ published on Zenodo (10.5281/zenodo.20416085, 2026-05-27; scripts.zip on record).
• Tier 1 #3: finite_mode_kirchhoff/ published on Zenodo (10.5281/zenodo.20416564, 2026-05-27; scripts.zip on record).
• Tier 1 #4: thermodynamics_arrow/ published on Zenodo (10.5281/zenodo.20478826, 2026-05-31; scripts.zip on record). Tier-1 quartet complete.
• Tier 2 #5 (combined): tuft_sm_lagrangian/ published on Zenodo (10.5281/zenodo.20601215, v2 2026-06-08; scripts.zip on record). Lean support: hqiv-lean PR #12 (paper_tuft_sm_lagrangian target).
• Tier 2 #6: baryogenesis_lockin/ published on Zenodo (10.5281/zenodo.20711255, v1 2026-06-16; scripts.zip on record).
• Tier 2 #7: publish nucleon_binding/ (Binding Energy and the Weak Force; cites #5 and #6).
• Move rapidity_so8_closure/ into archive/.
• Tier 2 remainder: nucleon_binding/ → bbn/.
• Tier 3 (start): longitudinal_em_force/ + coronal_heating/ (back-to-back).
• Tier 3: orbital_flyby/ (SPARC map + Rosetta boundary-channel note).
• Tier 3 (remainder): omaxwell_fluid_chart/.

Writing conventions

Reader first, not a Lean walkthrough. The paper body is for physicists and mathematicians. Lean is the audit layer — load-bearing, but it lives in an appendix, not in every other sentence.

Rule

• Body: prose uses reader-friendly names for every concept ("the lattice $\alpha$-ratio identity", "the curvature norm", "the shell-imprint factor"). No \path{Hqiv/...} and no \texttt{snake\_case\_lemma\_names} inline.
• Appendix: every Lean reference (module path + theorem/definition name) appears in a single appendix section that the body links to. The appendix is the only place a reader has to look at file paths.
• Cross-link: the reader-friendly name in the body is a clickable hyperref to its appendix entry; the appendix entry itself shows the Lean module + identifier.

Pattern

% In the body — reader-friendly, clickable
The lattice ratio at every truncation equals
\(\alpha = 3/5\) (\hyperref[lean:latticeAlphaRatio]{lattice $\alpha$-ratio identity}).

% In the back matter — single Lean index
\appendix
\section{Lean module index}\label{app:lean-index}

\begin{description}
\item[\phantomsection\label{lean:latticeAlphaRatio}Lattice $\alpha$-ratio identity.]
  \path{Hqiv/Geometry/OctonionicLightCone.lean},
  theorem \texttt{latticeAlphaRatio\_eq\_alpha}.

\item[\phantomsection\label{lean:gammaForced}Forced $\gamma = 2/5$.]
  \path{Hqiv/Geometry/AlphaGammaForcedByLattice.lean},
  theorem \texttt{gamma\_eq\_2\_5} (paired with
  \texttt{alpha\_gamma\_forced\_pair}).
\end{description}

\hypersetup{linkcolor=blue} (or similar) is encouraged so the body links are visibly clickable in the PDF.

Allowed exceptions

• Module names may appear in the body of a Lean status paragraph that is itself flagged as such (e.g. "Status of the formal cone:") — but at most one such paragraph per section.
• Theorems being stated as the paper's own contribution may carry their Lean identifier on the same line as the theorem statement (one identifier, in \texttt{...}), since the identifier is the contribution.
• Standalone "audit certificate" papers (like the published closure) may keep more inline Lean references because the certificate is the paper. New drafts should not adopt that style.

Retroactive cleanup target

The lightcone v3 pass is the first paper to be brought into compliance (see the lightcone checklist above — it is currently the worst offender, with dozens of \lean{...} calls and \texttt{module\_name} references in the body and abstract). Tier 1+ drafts must ship with this convention from day one.

Layout

papers/
├── README.md
├── references.bib          ← single shared bibliography
├── include/                ← shared LaTeX fragments (cited via ../include/...)
│   ├── patch_theory_messaging.tex
│   └── release_archive_macros.tex
├── <paper_short_name>/     ← one folder per paper
│   ├── <paper>.tex
│   ├── <paper>.pdf         (rebuilt locally; .gitignored auxiliaries excluded)
│   └── authors.json
└── archive/                ← superseded / historical drafts
    ├── mainold/
    └── MHD/

Paper folders (alphabetical)

Folder	Source .tex	Tier
closure/	closure.tex (+ bundled so8_closure_full_appendix.tex)	0c
lightcone_to_oshoracle/	octonion_lightcone_to_oshoracle.tex	0b
3d_causal_growth/	hqiv_3d_causal_growth_octonionic_gauge.tex	1.1 (Zenodo)
octonionic_action/	hqiv_octonionic_action_and_uniqueness.tex	1.2 (Zenodo)
finite_mode_kirchhoff/	hqiv_finite_mode_kirchhoff_from_lattice_simplex.tex	1.3 (Zenodo)
factor_search_formalization/	hqiv_factor_search_formalization.tex	Lean formal proof note
goldbach_so4_so2_delta/	goldbach_so4_so2_delta.tex	Lean formal proof note
thermodynamics_arrow/	hqiv_thermodynamics_and_arrow_of_time.tex	1.4 (Zenodo)
tuft_sm_lagrangian/	hqiv_tuft_sm_lagrangian_synthesis.tex	2.5 (Zenodo)
baryogenesis_lockin/	hqiv_baryogenesis_curvature_lockin.tex	2.6 (Zenodo)
nucleon_binding/	hqiv_nucleon_binding_from_composite_trace.tex	2.8
bbn/	hqiv_bbn_light_elements_from_network_weights.tex	2.9
longitudinal_em_force/	longitudinal_em_force_hqiv.tex	3.10
coronal_heating/	hqiv_coronal_longitudinal_heating.tex	3.11
omaxwell_fluid_chart/	HQIV_OMaxwell_fluid_chart.tex	3.12
orbital_flyby/	hqiv_accelerations_galaxy_evolution.tex (+ flyby_paper_table.tex)	3.13
tuft_topology_hqiv_bridge/	hqiv_tuft_topology_discrete_continuous_bridge.tex	working draft (Tier-2 topology companion)
archive/lean_to_mass_spectrum/	hqiv_lean_from_combinatorics_to_mass_spectrum.tex	archive (superseded by TUFT synthesis)
rapidity_so8_closure/	hqiv_rapidity_manifold_so8_closure.tex	archive (pending move)
archive/mainold/	mainold.tex (legacy monolithic draft)	archive
archive/MHD/	mhd.tex	archive

Building

Each paper is self-contained from its own folder:

cd <paper_short_name>/
latexmk -pdf <paper>.tex

Paths in the sources reference the shared bibliography and includes relatively:

• \input{../include/patch_theory_messaging.tex}
• \input{../include/shell_ontology_messaging.tex} (TUFT hadron / mass-spectrum papers — not cosmology-only drafts)
• \input{../include/release_archive_macros.tex} (Tier 0/1 papers that ship a companion-code archive)
• \bibliography{../references}

(Archive papers nested one level deeper use ../../ accordingly.)

Authors

Every paper folder has an authors.json with the schema:

{
  "paper": "<paper_short_name>",
  "authors": [
    {
      "name":        "Steven Ettinger Jr",
      "email":       "steven@disregardfiat.tech",
      "affiliation": "Independent Researcher",
      "orcid":       "0009-0004-9940-3666",
      "github":      "disregardfiat"
    }
  ]
}

The single sole-author ORCID 0009-0004-9940-3666 is now propagated to every paper (see commit history if a folder is missing it). Add new co-authors by appending to the authors array; only fill in orcid once the new author has a real iD (use null until then, never the placeholder zeros).