[amaybaum]

This is the Explainer part of source-correction unit SC-17 in the #942 audit (gate #946). By owner decision, these sites are corrected now rather than left for the Explainer's retirement. Base: main 0d917665. Head: 81654257.

Review history:

Commit	Content	Review
2619c94b	First draft	ACCEPT WITH CHANGES (R1, R2; O1–O6)
81654257	Applies R1, R2 and O1–O5; O6 recorded as follow-ups	Confirmation: ACCEPT

Sites

Site	Was	Now
Explainer :709; ch03 :186 and FULL	Entanglement as "correlations written into the hidden sector during preparation and not yet read back"	Under determinism and a ±1 outcome in every run, a completion that keeps ontic parameter independence and measurement independence obeys |S_CHSH| ≤ 2. A completion reproducing quantum Bell correlations therefore gives up at least one of the two. The framework gives up ontic parameter independence. Whether the SM/GR substratum supplies that dependence through preparation-indexed adjacency, while preserving operational no-signaling and its continuum-curvature limit, is the open hypothesis H-Bell [Main §3.3]
Explainer :767, :769, :771, :818, :820, :974	"The dynamics is unique"; center independence "necessary for emergent QM … information-screening"; linearity selected by speed, P-indivisibility and Unruh	The form x_i(t+1) = α Σ_{j∼i} x_j(t) − x_i(t−1) is fixed up to one coefficient. Nearest-neighbour range is an assumption. Center independence carries neither the memory nor the P-indivisibility, and its descent is open. Linearity rests on the amplitude-scale-gauge lemma. α = 1/d is the largest stable value, where the lift's leading symbol is isotropic. Lorentz and Unruh are tests, not selectors [SM §4.1]. "Information-screening" appears nowhere in the corpus
Explainer :826; ch05 :95 and FULL	"The Higgs mechanism from one condition": one condition gives memory, chirality and the Higgs	On the staggered branch, center independence gives exact chiral symmetry [SM §4.3, Thm 3]. Explicit masses are forbidden, so the Higgs is the unique renormalizable mechanism [SM §4.11]. The doublet is phenomenological input, accommodated under H-spin′ [SM §4.7, Thm 11]. The claim that center independence alone forces both memory and chirality is not available [SM §4.3]. ch05 also no longer calls every center coupling a mass term
Explainer :58, :300, :338, :563, :665, :1017	Compressed Bell ceilings missing hypotheses, or (:1017) missing the either/or	The missing hypotheses are added (±1 in every run, own-wing interventions, "ontic"). :1017 restores the either/or

Introduction dependency: none. #918's Bell section states every hypothesis, the either/or and H-Bell.

Recorded on #946 as follow-ups, not in this PR:

• Main :700 places Bell on the wrong branch.
• Main :766 and :558.
• SM Theorem 3 is displayed as an equivalence, but only one direction is proved.
• Explainer :771 says "nothing to tune" although σ is undetermined.
• The Explainer's section labels.
• The compressed Bell ceilings in the book and Main.
• Selector residuals at Substratum :48, :159, :323, SM :110, :296 and Complexity :27.

Checks (local, at 81654257):

• Release gate: every step passes except lean-axioms, which runs in CI.
• edge_rigidity_probe: all pass.
• Mirror and stamps match. Explainer: 70 → 71 pages. Book: 558 pages.
• Added-lines and secrets scans: 0 hits.

Merge: in dependency order after #918, and only at an exact SHA the owner approves.

Links: #942, #946.

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[amaybaum]

Owner H2 compatibility note — do not revive obsolete linearity inference

H2's independently accepted correction will remove the unsupported centre-free affine branch ⇒ homogeneous linear inference in papers/Explainer.md:767 and papers/SM.md:240, while preserving the genuine affine result and A5 as an explicit selected-model posit. Any future revival or rebase of this draft must absorb the H2 corrected Explainer:767 wording and inspect the SC17 verification audit README:15 quote of the old claim. This note does not authorize modifications, reopening scientific execution or merging this draft.

At the 2026-11-02 checkpoint, this PR already reports mergeable=false against current main; those pre-existing conflicts do not arise from H2 and are not resolved by H2's independent review. H2 has draft-PR implementation authorization on #1029. H2 is separate from #963; the five holds, #1036 and #1037 stay unchanged.

[amaybaum]

Closed unmerged. The corrections are on main:

• Bell: Reconcile Bell boundaries and operational-completion assumptions on current main #1000 (6e219231);
• :767/:769/:771/:773/:818/:820/:974: Workstream D: consolidated minimal source corrections #1019 D-4 (79b5444f);
• :826 and the ch05:95 Theorem 3 scope: D-3 (9a6a2f18) and 1cfbe6b1;
• the linearity clause: H2 (5008d916, MI-1 H2: center independence gives an affine rule, not a linear one #1050);
• the SC17 README (R1–R4): Legacy PR reconciliation: #1002 patch-budget hypothesis, #963 SC17 README, #975 SC38 evidence #1057 (merge 4759d27b, owner decision OD-3).

Three of this PR's texts conflict with main and are not adopted:

• the :767 linear clause (the inference H2 refuted);
• the "isotropic" reason for α = 1/d (the leading symbol is isotropic for every α; α = 1/d is the gapless value);
• the Option-B reading of Theorem 3.

The optional Explainer:826 Higgs-doublet sentence was declined (the Explainer is a superseded historical exposition). The underlying derived-versus-input contradiction in the maintained book is routed to #1058. The stale sm-source-reconciliation README:9 is #1029 orphan 32.

Branch corpus/sc17-explainer-bell (head e316cf92) is kept.

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