Formal proof defines structural requirements for semantic termination in AI inference architectures, indicating crucial design principles.
This paper defines the formal structural requirements for the Invariant Constraint Kernel (ICK), the constraint-governed substrate required for semantic termination in AI inference architectures. Building directly on the Taxicab Condition and the τ-operator introduced in Termination as a Condition for Semantic Resolution in Statistical Systems (Zenodo: 10.5281/zenodo.20034316), this paper specifies the internal geometry of the ICK as a constrained structural space composed of three primitive classes: Invariant Equivalence Classes, Relational Constraint Structures, and Terminal Invariant Subsets. The central result is a formal proof of the categorical distinction between local admissibility and global admissibility—showing that a dependency path may terminate relative to a local anchor while failing global admissibility. A second result establishes that global admissibility requires convergence of all terminating dependency paths to a unique invariant anchor. These results define the boundary conditions for any architecture seeking to enforce structural admissibility by design rather than by behavioral tuning. Builds on the Modal–Dependence Calculus (MDC): 10.5281/zenodo.19704166.
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