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title: "A Conservation Law for Commitment in Language Under Transformative Compression and Recursive Application"
version: "v0.04"
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.18792459
date-released: 2026-02-26
url: "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18792459"
repository-code: "https://github.com/SunrisesIllNeverSee/commitment-conservation"
authors:
  - family-names: "McHenry"
    given-names: "Deric J."
    affiliation: "Ello Cello LLC"
    email: "burnmyday@proton.me"
keywords:
  - information-theory
  - llm
  - compression
  - recursion
  - computational-linguistics
  - commitment-conservation
  - language-models
  - falsification
  - conservation-law
  - semantic-preservation
license: CC-BY-4.0
abstract: "This work proposes a conservation law for commitment in language under transformative compression and recursive application. We define commitment as the minimal, identity-preserving content that remains invariant under loss-inducing transformations, and demonstrate that commitment content is conserved under such compression while non-committal information collapses. Preliminary tests using a prototype harness on a limited corpus demonstrate patterns consistent with these predictions; we invite large-scale adversarial replication to validate or falsify the framework."