Glossary of the Identity-Persistence Stack

Abstract This glossary defines a controlled vocabulary for the Identity-Persistence Program. Its purpose is to prevent semantic drift between related but non-equivalent terms such as regularity, recurrence, symmetry, invariance, pattern, compression, coherence, stability, verification, trust, and identity persistence. The central rule is that a claim of sameness through change is licensed only by a declared regime. The glossary organizes the required roles, verdicts, epistemic boundaries, capacity/coding terms, software applications, and social-institutional extensions of the program. It distinguishes core roles and formal results from derived readings, exploratory realizations, open problems, and not-claimed boundaries. This document is not a manifesto and does not introduce new theorems. It is a reference artifact for indexing, interpretation, and terminology control across the Identity-Persistence stack.