Where the Charge Lives: Coherence, Standards, and Physical Identification in GCFT-0673–0679

This research synthesis follows the development of General Coherence Field Theory (GCFT) through records GCFT-0673–0679, focusing on the conditions required before a mathematical field pattern can be identified with a measurable physical object or charge. The paper examines several linked problems: tensor propagation and background-dependent distance, operational redshift and physical standards, the distinction between global and local C-family realizations, representation constraints on coherence-only particle identification, and the geometry of localized field structures. It records both successful constructions and explicit failures, including the loss of a proposed tensor discriminator, failure of a constrained wall to satisfy the full stationary equations, a radial localization obstruction, and correction of an invalid charged-shell energy argument. A repaired route introduces a gauge-invariant truncated degree measure for a fixed benchmark energy and derives a local degree–energy domination estimate. This leads to finite-energy bounds on spatial topological degree changes without requiring a positive growth window. The remaining unresolved step is isolated as a physical identification problem: establishing that genealogical or packet labels correspond to charge carried by the same underlying field configuration. The accompanying evidence supplement preserves the source chain, failed attempts, corrections, code, historical receipts, file hashes, selected algebra checks, and validation records. No observational fit, selected cosmological route, full planar minimizer, three-dimensional particle identification, or universal packet-identification theorem is claimed. Version 2: Minor editorial and typesetting revision. The scientific content, equations, claims, qualifications, and evidence structure are unchanged. Page flow, section placement, table-of-contents layout, and related pagination details were adjusted after additional visual review to reduce awkward page breaks and improve readability.