Epistemic Inventory and Taxonomy of Claims

Abstract

Here we present four companion documents for the program corpus listed below. The Taxonomy of Claims lists the theory's claims and assigns each one a status. The claims are grouped in four tiers: Framework (the laws and constants, which the theory does not derive), Derived from Framework (quantities computed from the framework, not independent inputs – including the per-edge failure probability p = ln 2/(2π²) and its spin-foam status, the bare-edge rule, and the tensor consistency relation n_t = n_s − 1), Pre-history (derived properties that are the same in any realization), and History (properties specific to our universe). A set of notes covers the counting conventions, the ensemble rule, the correspondence ledger, the anchor question and its resolution, several associations recorded without claim status, and a closing statement of the one assumption the theory requires. The Epistemic Inventory (What the Theory Claims to Know) contains the same material organized by question. Some fifty questions – why the cosmological constant is small, why w = −1, where the spectral tilt comes from, whether there are primordial gravitational waves, what preceded the first moment, why these constants – are each given the theory's answer in plain language and a status: derived, identified, dissolved, partial, or not claimed. The final section lists the questions the theory does not claim to answer. The Universe from a Single Strike is a lay description of the Ignition, provided as an onramp to the framework's technical papers. Two revision notes carry the tensor sector's audit trail, retained side by side. Correcting Errors in the Tensor-to-Scalar Ratio Calculation is the first revision, kept as the record it is: the ensemble correction, the bare-edge rule, and the revision of the physical ratio to 0.0301 ± 0.001. Deriving the Assertions in the Tensor-to-Scalar Ratio Calculation (new in this version, and controlling where the two disagree) is the consolidated revision, closing by computation the two commitments the first note left standing in its own words: the deposit-support rule, previously ratified, is derived as exact geometry (the 60° ring partition a theorem of the subdivision, the wedge-share inheritance rule derived), and the inter-move correlations, previously asserted shapeless, are enumerated (own-shell cross terms vanish identically; the boundary–existence channel is a constant renormalization adding no shape). The amplitude moves and no relation does: a standard flat-template B-mode analysis will report r = 0.0297 ± 0.0005, about 7% under the current combined limit r < 0.032; the underlying physical ratio, the same at every scale, is 0.0281 ± 0.0005, with the revision history owned on the record (0.0339 → 0.0301 → 0.0281). The tensor tilt is unchanged at the exact consistency relation n_t = n_s − 1 = −0.03512, now ten times redder than single-field inflation's at equal r; the α_s withdrawal stands. The new note answers the first note's frozen claims row by row in a ledger appendix, withdraws that note's promise of numerical finality as a category error, carries the complete derivations in its appendices, reproducible from the public replication package, and is registered before the next B-mode data release. The taxonomy and inventory are updated to match, including the upgraded statuses the note drives. This version registers three additions driven by the tensor tranche of the modeling package (10.5281/zenodo.22217227) and by the one-loop sector: the two-entry sourcing dictionary behind r – missing volume sources the scalar per cell, hinge-deficit shear sources the tensor per hinge, joined at the single-failure channel as a named premise – with the exact S³ mode-count law (2/5)(1 − 4/n²); and the marginal-normalization premise behind A_s, superseding the one-loop paper's "standard sectors net to unity" (the tensor-sector determinant is now computed, 0.762, and the vector and ghost sectors cancel exactly). Registered values are unchanged; the exact-support window factor 0.9539 is carried in the modeling package pending consolidation. The falsification conditions for the corpus are collected separately in the predictions letter (revised in step with this version) and are not repeated in these documents. All documents will be maintained: new versions will record changes in the status of claims, including withdrawals. The Program Corpus The Last Evaporation: Planck Remnants as Cosmological Seeds in Empty Spacetime - 10.5281/zenodo.19324262 Cosmological Structure Without Inflation: The Perturbation Spectrum from Pre-Geometric Construction - 10.5281/zenodo.19513896 One-Loop Identities on the S4 Instanton - 10.5281/zenodo.20045607 The Ignition Transition: From the No-Boundary Saddle to Radiation Domination - 10.5281/zenodo.20559451 The Ignition Inventory: Defect Energy and Static Topology - 10.5281/zenodo.20559916 Cosmology from a Three-Bit Seed: The Predictions and Their Falsification Gates - 10.5281/zenodo.21270529 Epistemic Inventory and Taxonomy of Claims - 10.5281/zenodo.21324530 Tractable Modeling: The Truncated Tessellation - 10.5281/zenodo.22217227