A Short Orientation to the Identity-Persistence Program

Abstract A Short Orientation to the Identity–Persistence Program is the canonical guide to the Identity–Persistence corpus. It introduces the architecture of the research program, distinguishes proven results from derived interpretations and open questions, and explains how the individual papers depend upon one another without extending or modifying the formal mathematics. The guide presents the program as a structural theory of licensed persistence judgments under declared regimes. It organizes the corpus around three forcing theorems—identity, admissibility, and sufficient regime specification—together with the foundational preconditions, capacity and verification results, architectural analyses, methodological companions, applications, and engineering instantiations that surround them. It records the status of each component, identifies the remaining open frontier, and provides multiple reading paths for readers with different backgrounds. The document serves as the canonical orientation and navigation guide for the corpus. It establishes the program’s dependency structure, claim-status discipline, and boundaries between formal proof, architectural analysis, methodology, application, engineering, and open research.