CE: the original-rod relational lapse

Retain the original inflaton-slice harmonic rods and the fixed clock calibration of the supplied Em02-E record CheungEm02E. The classical composition

and its second variation remain classical input data. Modified rods cannot be substituted silently; the rod-dependent quadratic distinction is recorded in XIX-A XIXA.

All five audit slots remain unsupplied for this native target:

1. Q1: no gauge fermion, complete coupled metric–scalar–ghost operator, operator domain, or normalized covariance matrix is constructed here;

2. Q2: no state or suitable parametrix with the required singular and spatial-tail properties is selected here;

3. Q3: no complete Wick/time-ordered realization, admissible graph-counterterm classification, or spatial image of those corrections is calculated here;

4. Q4: no complete quantum remainder or regulator-removal theorem is proved here;

5. Q5: no retained-order quantum breaking term or admissible repair is evaluated here.

A useful schematic target would be the contraction of the classical quadratic lapse Hessian against the appropriate coupled two-point matrix, together with every other contribution at the same retained order. Equation (eq:prospective) does not define that target until its distributions and operations have been supplied.

The background interval is kept strictly away from $t=0$. No limit toward $t=0$, de Sitter state, or quantum gravitational evolution on that cosmological background is inferred.