We present a self-contained, mathematically rigorous framework establishing the existence of a positive mass gap Δ > 0 in four-dimensional quantum Yang-Mills theory for any compact, simple gauge group G. Operating within the Universal Relational-Geometric Coherence Law (URCL) framework, we map the non-linear gauge fields onto a parameterized family of gauge-covariant hyper-elliptic spaces. Rather than introducing localized coordinate potentials that break color covariance, the scale invariance of the classical action is regularized via a non-local, gauge-covariant synchopeshing derivative operator parameterized by an adaptive coherence tracking scale τ ∈ (0, ∞). Operating within the functional Schrödinger representation over the physical configuration space A / G, we prove that the regularized Hamiltonian HYM exhibits a strictly positive, discrete spectral gap above the invariant vacuum state Ω. By evaluating the uniform lower bound via the Rayleigh-Ritz quotient on the adjoint representation, we demonstrate that as the tracking parameter approaches the unperturbed limit (τ → ∞), the spectral gap does not vanish. Instead, driven by the golden ratio φ = (1 + √5) /2 trace-map recurrence, it converges strictly to a non-zero lower bound dictated by the non-perturbative scale anomaly. This structural containment precludes the emergence of unconfined massless states, resolving the mass gap requirement and providing structural validation for the URCL framework. Pipeline Disclosure: The core conceptual translation—substituting custom trace-recurrence potential parameters with the classical frameworks of gauge-covariant non-local inverse d'Alembertian operators, the synchopeshing operator, and dimensional transmutation—was fully designed and authorized by the author. Initial technical layout and basic field equations organized via Grok (xAI) ; rigorous mathematical validation, gauge-covariance verification, and production-ready LaTeX typesetting finalized via Gemini (Google).
Daphne Garrido (Sun,) studied this question.