Gauge–Gravity Spectral Synthesis: Joint Einstein–Yang–Mills Equations, Born–Infeld Completion, and the Hierarchy Ratio from Projective Spectral Entropy

The companion papers Gravity 3. 0 and Q12 derived, respectively, the Einstein tensor as the horizontal a₂ response and the Yang–Mills equations as the vertical a₄ response of the projective spectral entropy functional S_, A = 12' A₆, ₀. The present paper carries out the gauge–gravity synthesis and establishes its central conceptual consequence: gravity and gauge dynamics are not unified by enlarging the symmetry group or adding fields, but are stratified by the Seeley–DeWitt level at which the same admissible operator responds to variation. The conventional question ``what symmetry unifies gravity and gauge? '' is thereby replaced by ``at what spectral order does the projection respond? '' We solve the joint variational problem ₆, ₀S_ = 0 and derive the coupled Einstein–Yang–Mills system: the Yang–Mills stress tensor sources gravity through the metric dependence of the a₄ coefficient, with coupling constant 8 GN = cₘ₌/c₄₇ fixed by the Seeley–DeWitt expansion alone. We compute the a₆ coefficient and identify the leading gauge–gravity cross-coupling R_F^F^. The Eddington–Born–Infeld completion of the joint functional is constructed from the same Born–Infeld saturation bound that governs the gravitational sector. The gauge–gravity hierarchy is a structural output of the spectral stratification: gravity is induced at a₂ (quadratic UV divergence) and gauge at a₄ (logarithmic UV divergence), from the same cutoff ₒ₏, giving: \ GN g²ₘ₌ \;\; ₒ₏ℂ V [^-1 \;\; 1, \] without fine-tuning. The spectral stratification a₂ gravity, \; a₄ gauge, \; a₆ mixed coupling predicts that fermionic structure should appear at a dedicated spectral level carrying a Dirac-type admissible operator, which is the central open question for the continuation of the programme. The gauge group G_ is inherited from the spectral admissibility sub-programme ; the SU (3) sector is unconditional: H-color₄₅₅ (equality of capacity exponents) and H-color₏₎₈₍ₓₖ₈ₒ₄ (exact equality at finite q) are both established analytically in.