A Complete Logic of Certification Soundness, Completeness, and Maximality for Stratified Verification Protocols Paper 50 of the NEMS Suite

We give a stratified certification calculus with nontrivial semantics: CertifiableAt(S, C) means there exists an admissible internal verification protocol (roles, coverage) at strength S that certifies C in the coverage sense: the aggregate verifier is non-abstaining on every instance in C under admissible aggregation. The proof system _S mirrors protocol combinators (axiom from role coverage, union, subset, stratum monotonicity). We prove soundness (T50.1): every derivation yields a protocol witness; completeness (T50.2): every protocol witness normalizes to a derivation; and maximality (T50.3): any extension yielding a total decider for an extensional nontrivial predicate on a diagonal-capable domain contradicts the SelectorStrength barrier (Paper 29). Thus the calculus is complete and maximally complete under NEMS constraints. Mechanized in Lean 4 (CertificationLogic); 0 custom axioms on the capstone chains. Primary anchors: _capstone, _capstone, _maximality. Trust boundary. Machine-checked claims are conditional on the Lean kernel, toolchain pin, and the nems-lean definitions cited in . Discussion of physics or institutional applications is interpretive and relies on modeling bridges in .