Binding, Irreversibility, and the Loss of Neutral Return: A Minimal Structural Note

Systems may satisfy admissibility, execute correctly, and retain structural return paths, yet still lack a structurally fixed point at which consequence becomes binding. This note isolates that missing condition. The boundary is not execution, nor the disappearance of return, but the point at which carried-forward state can no longer be made causally irrelevant across admissible futures. From that point onward, rollback becomes transformation, recovery carries consequence, and prior-state operation is no longer valid.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-03-26
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19235813
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Economic theories and models
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Binding, Irreversibility, and the Loss of Neutral Return: A Minimal Structural Note

Andrzej Skulski, Jake Macdonald
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Economic theories and models
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Binding, Irreversibility, and the Loss of Neutral Return: A Minimal Structural Note

Andrzej Skulski, Jake Macdonald
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Abstract

Systems may satisfy admissibility, execute correctly, and retain structural return paths, yet still lack a structurally fixed point at which consequence becomes binding. This note isolates that missing condition. The boundary is not execution, nor the disappearance of return, but the point at which carried-forward state can no longer be made causally irrelevant across admissible futures. From that point onward, rollback becomes transformation, recovery carries consequence, and prior-state operation is no longer valid.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
China National Hybrid Rice R&D Central Hunan Hybrid Rice Reserch Center (CN)
Reduced inequalities
Openalex Percentile: Top 11%
Economic theories and models
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