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An evidence-based verifier cannot correctly decide a claim that takes different truth values within a single evidence fiber, and overcoming this obstruction strictly requires an additional informative channel or premise. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.METHODOLOGICAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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Characterize the mathematical boundaries of what bounded systems can verify using limited evidence, computation, and memory under explicit resource contracts.

September 14, 2026Open Access

The Verification Boundary: Exact Limits of Verification by Bounded Systems: Identification, Generation, Computation, Implementation, Correspondence — and the Forced Routing at Each Limit

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Characterize the mathematical boundaries of what bounded systems can verify using limited evidence, computation, and memory under explicit resource contracts.
Constructed formal mathematical frameworks evaluating evidence fibers, semantic determination, effective computation, and bounded implementation.
Modeled adaptive acquisition and relational answer selection using finite query-tree constructions and explicit finite-machine architectures.
Analyzed terminal guarantee feasibility using maximal antichains across finite permitted procedure classes.
Evidence-based verifiers cannot resolve claims taking multiple truth values across a single evidence fiber without external channels or premises.
Finite resource classes exhibit incomparable attainable capabilities rather than a single dominant evaluator, imposing conditional limits on self-verification.
Deterministic verification failures do not yield premise-free probabilistic estimates, necessitating typed protocols that explicitly route unresolved outcomes.

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Theoretical analysis demonstrates exact limits of proof in resource-constrained systems, highlighting conditions where bounded verifiers must return unresolved outcomes.

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Devin Bostick (2026) studied this question.

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Theoretical analysis demonstrates exact limits of proof in resource-constrained systems, highlighting conditions where bounded verifiers must return unresolved outcomes.

The Verification Boundary: Exact Limits of Verification by Bounded Systems: Identification, Generation, Computation, Implementation, Correspondence — and the Forced Routing at Each Limit

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The Verification Boundary: Exact Limits of Verification by Bounded Systems: Identification, Generation, Computation, Implementation, Correspondence — and the Forced Routing at Each Limit

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