Constitutional Demarcation: A Research Fabric is a bounded epistemological architecture. Structural formulation, digital execution, and proof-assistant replay declare local invariants; they do not constitute unverified physical validation.
Research Question
What conditions permit indefinitely extensible digital structures to remain coherent, well-founded, and admissible under continued recursive growth?
Scientific Basis
In the SFR dependency map, IDST follows stabilization and turns admissible continuation into a theory of recursively ordered digital hierarchy. It supplies the formal architectural layer required before DFT can claim coherent large-scale digital continuation.
Architecture
- recursively ordered digital levels;
- well-founded hierarchy rather than circular dependence;
- stabilization inherited from ISF / CSM;
- identity-preserving continuation across levels;
- admissibility constraints on extension;
- explicit distinction between indefinite extensibility and uncontrolled accumulation.
Core Invariants
- well-founded recursive order;
- preservation of structural identity;
- stabilized continuation;
- hierarchy coherence;
- admissibility under scale extension.
Validity Domain & Public Status Boundary
IDST belongs to the formal architecture of the programme. Claims of applicability to a concrete digital network, software architecture, governance system, or distributed protocol require a separate implementation mapping and validation argument.
Publications & Primary Materials
- Infinite Core Scaling: A Minimum Viable Model for Logarithmic Growth in Digital Fabrica Theory
- Ordinal Well-Foundedness as a Structural Termination Criterion for Recursive Systems
- Digital Fabrica Theory: A Formal Framework for Infinite-Scale, Ethically Governed, Quantum-Secure Digital Infrastructure
Related Fabrics
Infinite & Complete Stabilization · Invariant Engineering · DFT · Quantum Consensus · Recursive Intelligence
