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The aim is to establish the Certification Complexity Theorem and its implications on certifying conservation claims.

June 22, 2026Open Access

The Certification Complexity Theorem: A Landauer Floor on the Cost of Certifying Conservation Claims

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The aim is to establish the Certification Complexity Theorem and its implications on certifying conservation claims.
Proved core relationships within framework of Lean 4 environment.
Establishes cost bounds using mathematical formulations.
Pairs findings with Monitoring Water-Filling and D-Score Measurement Closure Theorems.
Established a certification ceiling positivity based on Landauer’s principles.
Demonstrated a positive certification floor for confidence intervals.
Provided a certified-bit budget relationship denoted by C ≤ E_cert·D/εL.

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Working paper proves the cost of certifying conservation claims is constrained by the Intelligence Bound.

Hart et al. (2026) studied this question.

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