Effective Persistence Regimes in Maintenance-Dominated Systems: A Cross-Domain Diagnostic Framework

This archive contains the v1.0 manuscript of: “Effective Persistence Regimes in Maintenance-Dominated Systems: A Cross-Domain Diagnostic Framework” The paper introduces a substrate-independent operational framework for analyzing how long-lived systems allocate resources between productive expansion and continuity preservation under rising stabilization burden. The framework defines three persistence regimes: Expansion-Dominated Regime (EDR) Maintenance-Dominated Regime (MDR) Terminal Persistence Regime (TPR) and introduces a comparative diagnostic architecture based on: Maintenance Ratio (MRM_RMR) Adaptive Margin (AMA_MAM) Repair-to-Build Ratio (RBR_BRB) Technical Debt (DTD_TDT) Coordination Load (CLC_LCL) Coupling Density (CDC_DCD) The manuscript examines observable maintenance-dominated behavior across multiple substrates, including: physical infrastructure, software ecosystems, biological repair systems, and institutional coordination systems. The work does not propose a universal law of collapse or deterministic prediction model. Instead, it presents an operational diagnostic methodology for evaluating how stabilization burden evolves under long-duration persistence. The archive includes: complete LaTeX manuscript, bibliography, appendices, regime definitions, variable definitions, and diagnostic framework structure.