Papers
The six canonical papers are the controlling public authority of Shadow Theory. Branch papers carry statused branch results. Historical papers are the earlier Everything Equation / Tier-0 era archive — retained for the record, superseded as authority.
Papers 1–6 · read in order · the public loading manifest defines their authority.
Establishes the non-equivalence principle: an exact readout, quotient, or bounded presentation does not by itself recover the realization-relevant structure of the domain it summarizes.
Establishes the obstruction criterion: readout loss becomes a genuine public obstruction only when it is certified as an active, uncleared failure of an essential public closure slot.
Establishes conditional canonicality: a public completion is canonical exactly when it is a certified initial object in the public admissible completion category.
Establishes down-compilation discipline: a canonical completion output becomes a public Tier-1 artifact only through a total, deterministic, gate-cleared, residue-aware down-compiler.
Establishes the runtime calculus: route decisions, status algebra, residue algebra, equation-artifact grammar, claim licensing, testing, audit, and forbidden-promotion discipline.
The capstone synthesis: composes the five preceding results into a single typed synthesis object with a graph-theoretic claim-promotion discipline and the Scoped Shadow Fixed-Point Law-Packet Theorem.
86 records from the earlier programme era. These remain publicly available on Zenodo, but they are historical background and branch development traces — where they conflict with Papers 1–6, the six-paper stack controls.