Remark: Revision log (final verification)

Final verification edits; no expansion (no M.8–M.9); XVI-A–XVI-L, their artifacts and the GitHub repository are not modified.

1. {Time-only $\chi$-plateau kernel.} Proposition prop:to-chiplateau: $\ker H_t{|}_D$ is displayed by cases ($D=0,2,4$ versus $D=1,3$); odd spatial order is anti-self-adjoint ($E[h]=\sigma (t)K{\partial }_{1}h$ gives $E^{†}=-E$ since ${\partial }_1\sigma =0$); the spacetime-formal non-self-adjointness remark refers to the extra $D=2,4$ directions; dimensions $(26,0,156,0,390)$ unchanged; regression asserts the odd-$D$ anti-self-adjointness exactly.

2. Broad M-C matched-scale criterion. Definition def:MCcurv: broad M-C requires (i) a proved functional matching and (ii) an explicit cutoff $\varpi$ with a functional representation of the entire collapsed scale variation; M-C${}_{\mathrm{data}}$ (matching + explicit prescription-dependent scaling formulas) is satisfied; broad M-C Unresolved because XVI-L leaves $\varpi$ unspecified (thm:L6). Replaced “uncontrolled” by: numerical values and variationality of the full tensor are not determined for the unspecified cutoff.

3. Predecessor provenance. Pinned local/frozen files and archived corpus excerpts under XVI-M-artifacts/ provenance/; XVI-J eq:rational marked as corroboration, not a frozen XVI-L premise; “resting on a new input” $\to$ “an explicitly checked kernel identification”.

4. Wording. Lemma lem:M2comp: independently spot-checks every relation on $({\partial }^{\alpha }S)({\partial }^{\beta }S)$ at three rational points. Proposition prop:M7-id(EH): vanishes identically for arbitrary $h$ iff $w$ is locally constant.

5. Full scratch rerun. XVIM_FULL_WP =1 regression recorded as regression_full_ out.txt (artifacts and package); appendix listing updated.