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This work aims to elucidate the structural potentials within the LP phase space, focusing on recovery dynamics and implications of irreversibility.

May 21, 2026Open Access

Prose Version - Structural Potentials Under the Persistence Constraint: Gradient Topology, Irreversibility, and Recovery Resistance in the LP Phase Space

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This work aims to elucidate the structural potentials within the LP phase space, focusing on recovery dynamics and implications of irreversibility.
Derives the topology of the LP phase space based on persistence constraints and examines real system manifestations.
Analyzes concepts such as recovery narrowing, structural hysteresis, structural irreversibility, and topological completeness.
Identified recovery narrowing as the contraction of recovery trajectories near IR=1.
Demonstrated that structural hysteresis creates path-dependence in structural outcomes.
Established that some structural damage is irrecoverable beyond a certain threshold.

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This is the prose companion to La Profilée Foundation Series Paper 004 — Structural Potentials Under the Persistence Constraint (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20287557). The formal paper derives the topology of the LP phase space: Recovery Narrowing (the contraction of admissible recovery trajectories as IR approaches 1), Structural Hysteresis (path-dependence of structural position), Structural Irreversibility (the existence of a threshold beyond which no admissible recovery trajectory returns), and Topological Completeness. This prose version presents these results as they manifest in real systems: why crises appear to leave no alternatives, why the same IR reading can mean structurally different things depending on trajectory, and why some structural damage cannot be undone.

Prose Version - Structural Potentials Under the Persistence Constraint: Gradient Topology, Irreversibility, and Recovery Resistance in the LP Phase Space

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