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IndisputableMonolith.Gravity.SevenGaps.ExactShellGaugeUV

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Defines exact-shell complexes, shell complexity as the max of vertex/edge/tetrahedron counts, and relabeling gauge equivalence for the UV-regulated Recognition path sum. Gravity and Gap-2 continuum authors cite it when fixing shells before continuum or regulator limits. The module is mostly definitional, with congruence lemmas showing complexity is invariant under exact relabeling.

claimOn bounded incidence configurations, an exact complex carries finite vertex, edge, and tetrahedron counts $n_V,n_E,n_T$. Its shell complexity is $C=\max(n_V,n_E,n_T)$, the shell coordinate. Exact relabeling is an equivalence of exact complexes preserving incidence up to bijections of the three sorts; complexity is constant on equivalence classes and supplies the gauge-fixed UV shell for the regulated path sum $Z_{RS}^{uv}$.

background

Seven Gaps Lane 2 builds a path-sum measure $Z_{RS}$ on a scoped configuration class. Upstream, BoundedComplex B is the garbage-inclusive superclass of bounded incidence data (proved a Fintype via an explicit code equivalence). The simplicial subclass cuts that superclass down to configurations whose incidence is genuinely simplicial, with a one-tetrahedron witness checked by finite combinatorial decide.

This module sits on that stack and isolates the exact-shell layer used for UV gauge fixing. Complexity of a bounded complex is defined as the largest of its vertex, edge, and tetrahedron counts; the doc-comment states that this integer is the shell coordinate. Exact complexes and exact relabelings package the residual gauge freedom (vertex/edge/tetrahedron bijections compatible with incidence) so that path-sum weights can be summed shell-by-shell without double-counting labelings.

Notation throughout is combinatorial: $n_V,n_E,n_T$ for the three counts, complexity for their max, and a small equivalence-relation API (refl/symm/trans plus transport of the count equalities) for relabeling.

proof idea

Definition-and-congruence module rather than a deep existence proof. Complexity is introduced as the max of the three finite counts. Separate lemmas record that exact relabeling preserves $n_V$, $n_E$, and $n_T$ individually, then a congruence lemma lifts those equalities to equality of complexity. The relabeling relation is equipped with the standard equivalence-relation package (reflexivity, symmetry, transitivity) and transport lemmas for the underlying vertex and edge equivalences. No analytic estimates or continuum limits are proved here; those are deferred to importers.

why it matters in Recognition Science

Exact-shell gauge UV is the named carrier of the Gaussian-regulated quotient path sum $Z_{RS}^{uv}$. Downstream, RegulatorRemovalNoGo cites it to prove a kernel no-go: that regulated sum has no $\rho\to 0^+$ limit at zero phase. Gap-2 continuum residual DAG and posting-history continuum residual modules import it when banking ordered residuals for Pillar-2 measure and continuum-limit recovery. The Aut-fiber parity blocker also depends on exact shells when partitioning equal-shellAutCard classes inside one shell for the antipodal matching route.

In the broader Recognition gravity program this is the combinatorial UV bookkeeping layer between the proved path-sum measure on bounded complexes and the open continuum/regulator questions. It does not close those questions; it fixes the shell coordinate and gauge so later no-gos and residual DAGs can be stated cleanly.

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