This companion defines the public cross-paper vocabulary used by the RIME program. Owning manuscripts remain authoritative for formal definitions. The purpose here is to prevent neighboring constructions from being collapsed by informal shorthand.
- Use RIME program, not trilogy, except in an immutable historical title.
- Use Sectorized Observable Framework (SOF) on first occurrence and SOF thereafter.
- Treat cross-paper citations as interface references, not hypothesis imports.
- Use invariant only after declaring an equivalence relation and proving invariance under it.
- Qualify every count, rate, depth, wall coordinate, and diagnostic by the choices on which it depends.
| Term | Controlled meaning |
|---|---|
| represented averaging operator | a declared operator obtained from a finite-dimensional representation and weighting policy |
| spectral layer | a blockwise or jointly registered spectral component under declared conventions |
| compatible sectorization | a complete marked orthogonal projector family compatible with the stated source data |
| collision arrangement | a fixed declared family of branches together with their equality loci |
| collision quotient | the quotient structure induced by collisions inside that fixed arrangement |
Sigma_comm |
commutativity gate for a declared operator family |
Sigma_normal |
normality gate; it is not implied by commutativity alone |
Sigma_spec |
spectral admissibility domain after the preceding gates |
| pointwise registration | a certified sample at one parameter value, not a coherent moving projector field |
Do not use spectral wall for every repeated eigenvalue without identifying the field, chart, multiplicity convention, and wall policy.
The static operator core is
F_op = (V, {Q_i}, Y),
where V is a finite-dimensional complex Hilbert space, {Q_i} is a complete
marked orthogonal sectorization, and Y = {Y_a} is a labelled observable
alphabet. The labels are data and are not recoverable from an aggregate span.
Keep the linear layers distinct:
D_Q = span{Q_i}
E_Y = span{I, Y_a, Y_a^*}
S_{Q,Y} = D_Q + E_Y
Keep the closure layers distinct:
A_Y^+ positive-word algebra
A_Y^* observable star-closure
A_{Q,Y}^* sector-enriched star-closure
Closure describes eventual generated structure. It does not recover generator labels, route data, word length, or first-hit depth.
| Term | Controlled meaning |
|---|---|
| labelled block | Q_i Y_a Q_j for a declared observable label a |
R_1[Y] |
aggregate direct operator support of the labelled family Y |
Route_d[Y] |
routed projected products with declared intermediate sectors |
W_d[Y] |
full associative word support at word length d |
D_route[Y] |
first-hit depth in the routed-product filtration |
D_word[Y] |
first-hit depth in the full-word filtration |
| Term | Controlled meaning |
|---|---|
registered Lie family X |
independently declared Lie generators |
R_1^Lie |
direct support of the registered Lie generators |
R_2^Lie |
simple-commutator support under the declared convention |
Hall filtration H |
declared formal-expression filtration |
D_Lie |
first-hit depth in that Lie/Hall filtration |
The two branches are independent unless an explicit induction or bridge rule
is part of the realization. Do not use unqualified R_1, R_2, or D in
cross-paper prose.
- exact first hit at
d: witness atdplus verified non-hits belowd; - hit observed by
d: a witness exists byd, but minimality is unaudited; UNREACHED_AT_CUTOFF: no hit through the declared finite cutoff;- infinity: requires an appropriate closure or saturation certificate.
The retired numeric sentinel 999 never denotes infinity and must not enter
statistics.
| Term | Controlled meaning |
|---|---|
| typed deformation chart | a local parameter domain with fixed labels, carrier conventions, comparison maps, and declared continuity |
| fibre comparison map | a typed map placing selected fibrewise data into a fixed comparison space |
| trajectory | a declared one-parameter path in a chart |
| typed wall | a policy-relative local change of a selected typed field under Paper IX admissibility |
| wall pullback | restriction of a chart-level discriminant or wall package to a declared trajectory |
| response time | a trajectory-relative measurement with declared normalization, norm, threshold, and censoring policy |
Paper XI records admitted wall data using a sum type:
WallAtom = TrajectoryEvent | LocusSample
A TrajectoryEvent has an orientation, event parameter or interval, sampling
rule, and sparse before/after field changes. A LocusSample records incident
stratum germs and has no intrinsic before/after order unless a probe path is
declared.
Keep these fields independent:
realization_kind:strict_sofordiagnostic_analogue;record_role: wall event, locus sample, reference, boundary witness, or another declared role;field_family: spectral, operator, route, word, Lie/Hall, closure, state, proxy, or another typed family.
Wall coordinates are profile-relative diagnostics unless an invariance theorem is separately proved. Multi-label curation tags are not mutually exclusive classification classes.
| Term | Controlled meaning |
|---|---|
| Capability Manifest | declares which typed capabilities and conventions a source provides |
| Typed SOF IR | records validated typed objects, findings, dependencies, and evidence status |
| Report Profile | declares which supported claims a compiler requests and how they are gated |
| capability-sound compilation | every affirmative emitted claim is supported by the typed IR within its declared scope |
| Registry | capability-aware evidence architecture, not the compiler theorem and not an automatic compiler input |
.sofreport |
one realization-relative report under Paper XII protocol semantics |
| Audit Profile | requested aligned comparison coordinates and their policies |
.sofaudit |
sparse typed comparison of two explicitly aligned reports |
Strict SOF and diagnostic analogue are mutually exclusive realization kinds. A diagnostic analogue does not instantiate strict-SOF theorems.
| State | Meaning |
|---|---|
ALIGNED |
aligned and equal, or within the declared comparison tolerance |
MISMATCH |
aligned but unequal, or outside the declared comparison tolerance |
NOT_DECLARED |
the source report did not declare a required field |
NOT_APPLICABLE |
the coordinate does not apply under the declared profile |
INCOMPARABLE |
no valid alignment or compatible convention is available |
UNRESOLVED |
the requested comparison has not reached a supported conclusion |
ALIGNED names the successful aligned-equality outcome in the current
contract; it does not merely mean that an alignment map exists.
| Term | Controlled meaning |
|---|---|
ActionContext |
independently admitted actor, scope, objective, constraints, time, authority, and uncertainty input; it is not derived from an audit |
PolicyProfile |
the sole normative rule input of the current Paper XIV contract, with closed predicate, uncertainty, exception, and precedence semantics |
InterpretationRecord |
context- and policy-relative interpretation of retained Paper XIII coordinates; it does not rewrite the audit |
CandidateActionSet |
bounded set of policy-supported candidate records; it is not a selected or executed plan |
.sofaction |
Paper XIV artifact binding the immutable audit projection, admitted context and policy, interpretations, and disposition result |
NoDisposition |
no legal disposition was formed, including failed context or policy admission |
UnresolvedDisposition |
admitted inputs remain insufficient for a supported disposition |
NoActionDisposition |
an explicit applicable-policy result; it is not an empty candidate set by default |
The current .sofaction contract stops at bounded candidates. Selected plans,
authorization receipts, post-action observations, and independently validated
effects require separate downstream contracts. A missing context, policy, or
capability is never promoted into NoAction.
Use exactly four reader-facing levels:
| Level | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Theorem | exact statement proved from declared hypotheses |
| Computational Certificate | reproducible finite computation tied to declared inputs |
| Computational Observation | bounded numerical pattern without theorem promotion |
| Research Program | open problem, conjectural bridge, or proposed extension |
Use conditional when a conclusion depends on an unverified registration or bridge. Use proxy when the measured field is not the claimed strict field. Use sampled or truncated when the conclusion is bounded by a grid, interval, or cutoff.
Certificate class is a separate contract axis from reader-facing evidence level. A class identifies what a machine certificate checks; it does not by itself promote the associated claim to a Theorem or establish scientific adequacy.
| Certificate class | Serialized value or record class | Controlled scope |
|---|---|---|
| Protocol Conformance Certificate | protocol_conformance |
contract, validator, artifact, and receipt closure only |
| Object Certificate | object |
independently checkable source- or object-level recomputation under the declared basis |
| Migration/Assembly Certificate | migration_assembly |
source identity and declared migration or faithful-assembly preservation |
| Comparison Audit Certificate | comparison_audit |
alignment-relative comparison under the declared profile and basis |
| Policy Conformance Certificate | policy_conformance_certificate |
admitted context/policy execution under the closed SOFAction contract |
| Decision Trace Certificate | decision_trace_certificate |
deterministic interpretation and bounded disposition trace; not selection or authorization |
The first four values occur in SOFRS or SOFAUDIT claim records as permitted by their owning schema. The final two are SOFAction record classes. Their scopes are not interchangeable, and none overrides the four evidence levels above.
Avoid the following as active cross-paper vocabulary:
| Avoid | Use instead |
|---|---|
observable invariant without a theorem |
profile-relative observable coordinate or diagnostic |
accessibility determines behavior |
the declared carrier records or constrains the selected behavior |
universal Sigma_access |
a named typed discriminant or declared wall package |
unqualified R_1, R_2, D |
carrier-qualified support or depth notation |
| graph path as route witness | graph diagnostic unless a projected-product certificate exists |
| word support as commutator support | W_d[Y] or R_2^Lie, whichever was computed |
| capability becomes present along a chart | typed field witness or reachability state becomes present |
NOT_RECORDED as a result state |
record-field presence marker only |
999 |
UNREACHED_AT_CUTOFF with an explicit cutoff |
| Type I--IV as universal wall/accessibility classes | named mechanism such as commutator cancellation or image--kernel incidence |
| ADE as universal wall taxonomy | ADE candidate local model after a declared eligibility gate |
Public numerical values belong to versioned result records and passing validators. Public release identity belongs to Zenodo records, accepted release manifests, and the root Public Release table. Vocabulary documents must not become parallel numerical or release ledgers.