Finite Window Effects in Hard Persistence Corridors: A Baker-Map Diagnostic

This archive supports the manuscript “Finite Window Effects in Hard Persistence Corridors: A Baker-Map Diagnostic.” The study presents an exploratory numerical diagnostic of finite-window effects in a hard persistence corridor protocol applied to the generalised baker map. It was motivated by an earlier benchmark anomaly in which near zero hard persistence appeared under a registered protocol configuration. The diagnostic examines whether this behaviour is better understood as a protocol-boundary effect involving block size, block mean averaging variance, and repeated hard-survival comparisons. The results are exploratory and protocol scoped. They show that near zero hard persistence can be reproduced under matched block size and hard survival settings for both tested coordinate observables. Direct replay of the original implementation remains deferred to future work.