TNFR - RESEARCH PORTFOLIO
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1. OBJECTIVE AND OWNERSHIP
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Investigate whether justified nodal dynamics can generate interacting patterns
whose collective properties eventually explain independent physical observations.
Under admitted composition premises, a larger NFR can retain its constituents
and their causal influence. Deriving material constituents or quantum behavior
from TNFR, and explaining the origin of a shared substrate, remain open.
A collective measurement map is allowed; sensors need not equal primitive EPI.

The primary line is:
  information -> interaction -> complete law -> organization -> observation

This file classifies contributions. It contains no task queue, theorem
inventory or run history. Use the maintained owners:

  Current task, acceptance, dependencies and reopening conditions:
    theory/research/FIVE_STAGE_EXECUTION_PLAN.md#current-g3-gate
  Scientific rationale and compatibility:
    theory/NODAL_RESEARCH_STRATEGY.md#fundamental-research-dependencies
  Definitions, results, source and test map:
    theory/README.md#theory-to-execution
  Execution and public usage:
    docs/API_CONTRACTS.md
    docs/CLI_AND_SDK.md

2. THREE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PRIMARY LINE
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A. SUFFICIENT INFORMATION AND JUSTIFIED INTERACTION
Determine what an interaction consumes, which premises determine its response,
and what state predicts its future. Instantaneous current and sufficient
future state are different obligations. Derived moments need not be new
primitive variables. Conditional selection and countermodels identify what
remains undetermined; compatibility alone cannot select a fundamental law.

  theory/NODAL_PARAMETER_FOUNDATIONS.md#derived-information-ledger
  theory/nodal/RELATIONAL_EXCHANGE_ADMISSION.md
  theory/nodal/PRESSURE_CONSTITUTIVE_SCOPE.md

B. ORGANIZATION, IDENTITY AND INTERACTION RESPONSE
Determine which identity forms, what maintains it and how it affects another
region under the same complete law. Reuse formation, persistence and response
results with their actual preparation, support and horizon premises. Stable
geometry, internal motion and perturbation stability are distinct; none alone
selects preparation, primitive support or physical identity.

  theory/EMERGENT_ONTOLOGY.md#organization-and-internal-pulse
  theory/nodal/SINE_PATTERN_DYNAMICS.md
  theory/nodal/RESONANCE_FOUNDATIONS.md

C. COMPOSITION, SCALE AND RETAINED MEMORY
Determine which state and interaction survive grouping or eliminating
constituents. Exact representations, invariant collective families and causal
memory have different purposes. Preserve internal associations, relative
origins, hidden initialization and forcing where consumed. A repeated graph
or a faithful re-encoding alone is not an emergent hierarchy or coarse closure.

  theory/TNFR_SCALE_GEOMETRY_AND_BRIDGE.md
  theory/nodal/RELATIONAL_PATTERN_COMPOSITION.md
  theory/nodal/RELATIONAL_PATTERN_MEMORY.md
  theory/DERIVED_EPI_MEMORY.md

3. SUPPORTING METHODS
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Mathematical and numerical admission serves the selected claim; the theory
catalog and TESTING.md own evidence and checks. Diagnostics and grammar are
observation/admission contracts, not a complete state or autonomous controller.
Continuous balances and event work require their respective laws.

Independent physical confrontation uses justified preparation, measurement,
clock and uncertainty under P1-P5. The atlas retains candidate mechanisms and
source reviews; protocols are designs until admitted. Public terrestrial
surface data or ordinary laboratory protocols must be usable with a workstation.
No extraterrestrial observations or large-facility programme is part of this line.

  theory/research/FIVE_STAGE_EXECUTION_PLAN.md#supporting-measurement-bridge
  theory/PHYSICAL_REGIME_CORRESPONDENCES.md
  theory/research/PHASE_AMPLITUDE_MEASUREMENT_PROTOCOL.md
  theory/research/PASSIVE_TRANSPORT_PROTOCOL.md

4. DEPENDENCIES AND AUXILIARY MATERIAL
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Capacity evolution, support birth, clock origin, autonomous preparation,
general hierarchy formation and physical identification reopen only when the
plan names a claim that needs them. They are not parallel campaigns.

Arithmetic/Riemann studies, graph waves, field-space Hamiltonians, cotangent
comparisons and gauge constructions retain independent premises. Reuse valid
mathematics or counterexamples without promoting analogies to matter or a
substrate. The archive retains evaluated-model boundaries and retirement
provenance; consolidation does not erase unresolved or negative results.

Preserve frozen declarations, source archives, responses and verdicts.
Previously inspected or evaluated observations cannot become unseen again.

  theory/research/FIVE_STAGE_EXECUTION_PLAN.md#deferred-work-and-reopening-conditions
  theory/research/archive/README.md
  theory/research/archive/RETIRED_PROGRAMME_BOUNDARIES.md
  theory/research/archive/RETIRED_SCOPE_2026-09-20.json