Paper 103 establishes structural categories necessary for maintaining persistence under restricted transformability.
Paper 103 establishes that any system admitting distinguishable states (C1), real transformation (C2), and determinate persistence verdicts (C3) must be non-transitive under admissible transformation. Restricted transformability is therefore not optional — it is forced by the persistence problem itself. This paper proves that a set of structural categories is not optional under this condition. Each is derived by contradiction: its negation destroys either persistence determinacy, the admissibility of transformation, or the non-triviality of the induced reachability structure. The categories established: partial order on identity classes, asymmetric structural dependence, strict contraction of reachable futures, absence of inverse reachability, and irreversible future-selection. A minimality theorem shows that each is individually necessary: removing any one collapses the persistence structure.
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