APF Paper 10 — The Calculus of Finite Continuability

Abstract

Paper 10 of the Admissibility Physics Framework (APF), The Calculus of Finite Continuability. Spencer-Brown's Laws of Form begins by drawing a distinction; APF begins one layer lower — a distinction is physical only through the admissible continuations it can sustain. Core results. The primitive judgment. Γ ⊢C D → E: in context Γ, the distinction-expression D can continue as E using enforcement capacity no greater than C. Enforceability is identity-class continuation, cost is the least burden required to continue, and the Budgeted Calculus of Distinctions is the discrete positive-floor specialization. One grammar for the whole stack. A recruitment profile records where the substrate carries a continuation's burden. Fields are equilibrium recruitment profiles; radiation is cost-discharge from failed adiabatic recruitment; quantum anchors are branch-conditioned recruitment structures; geometry is the cost structure of comparison and transport; gauge symmetry is continuation-profile-preserving relabeling; entropy is the irreversible coarsening of profiles. Possibility before dynamics. Continuation defines admissible possibility; a dynamics, probability law, or variational rule is a later selector or weighting on admissible continuations. That separation is the central simplification. Why this matters for the series. It is the language layer of Admissibility Physics — the common grammar, the first representation lemmas, and the theorem-tree discipline by which every later branch (geometry, fields, quantum order, gauge, entropy) must be certified. About the APF series. The Admissibility Physics Framework develops Standard Model and cosmological structure from a single primitive — finite enforcement capacity — through a chain of papers plus a machine-verifiable engine, with each result carried at its stated hypotheses. Each paper has a main text and, where applicable, a Technical Supplement, deposited on Zenodo and collected in the admissibility_physics community; the canonical engine (APF-Engine v24.3.504, 4,233 bank-registered theorems) records the constructions and controls behind every quantitative claim. The full series index is at admissibilityphysics.com. DOIs below are concept DOIs (they always resolve to the latest version). Paper 0 — What Physics Permits: A Constraint-First Framework for Physics — 10.5281/zenodo.18439523 Paper 1 — The Enforceability of Distinction — 10.5281/zenodo.18439200 · supplement Paper 2 — Finite Admissibility and the Failure of Global Description — 10.5281/zenodo.18439274 · supplement Paper 3 — Entropy, Time, and Accumulated Cost — 10.5281/zenodo.18439363 · supplement Paper 4 — Admissibility Constraints and Structural Saturation — 10.5281/zenodo.18439397 · supplement Paper 5 — Quantum Structure from Finite Enforceability — 10.5281/zenodo.18439433 · supplement Paper 6 — Dynamics and Geometry as Optimal Admissible Reallocation — 10.5281/zenodo.18439445 · supplement Paper 7 — A Minimal Quantum of Action from Finite Admissibility — 10.5281/zenodo.18439513 · supplement Paper 8 — The Admissibility-Capacity Ledger — 10.5281/zenodo.19721384 · supplement Paper 9 — The Geometric Substrate as Cost Structure of Comparison Continuations — 10.5281/zenodo.20041675 · supplement Paper 10 — The Calculus of Finite Continuability — 10.5281/zenodo.20041680 · supplement Paper 11 — Forced Universality from Capacity-Bounded Admissibility — 10.5281/zenodo.20684198 · supplement Paper 12 — The Gauge Sector of Admissibility Physics — 10.5281/zenodo.21212521 · supplement Paper 13 — The Minimal Admissibility Core — 10.5281/zenodo.18361446 Paper 14 — The Quantum Story — 10.5281/zenodo.21212188 · supplement Paper 16 — Markov Breakdown and the Hard Problems — 10.5281/zenodo.20684207 Paper 18 — The Electroweak Sector as a Capacity Equilibrium — 10.5281/zenodo.20684209 Paper 19 — Large-Angle CMB Suppression as a Finite-Continuability Constraint — 10.5281/zenodo.21199218 Paper 20 — The Enforcement Crystal — 10.5281/zenodo.18531732 · supplement Engine (Paper 21) — Admissibility Physics: An Executable Constraint Framework and Constants Map — 10.5281/zenodo.18529115 Paper 23 — Magnetically Dark Winding-Class Quantum Processors — 10.5281/zenodo.21199220 Paper 24 — The Recruitment-Radius Extension — Foundations — 10.5281/zenodo.20684211 · supplement Paper 25 — The Recruitment-Radius Extension: Applications — 10.5281/zenodo.21199222 · supplement Paper 28 — Absolute Mass Scales from Electroweak Capacity Saturation — 10.5281/zenodo.20684215 Paper 29 — Plaquette Representation Dominance and Confinement — 10.5281/zenodo.20684218 Paper 30 — A Tube Mechanism for the Lattice Mass Gap — 10.5281/zenodo.20684220 Paper 31 — Osterwalder–Schrader Structure of Lattice Yang–Mills — 10.5281/zenodo.20684222 Paper 32 — Quark Anchors as APF Trace Masses — 10.5281/zenodo.21199226 Paper 33 — Trace-to-Scheme Export Architecture — 10.5281/zenodo.20684224 · supplement Paper 35 — The Dark Sector as a Two-Role Capacity Decomposition — 10.5281/zenodo.20684228 · supplement Paper 36 — The Missing Floor — 10.5281/zenodo.21199228 Paper 37 — Collapse as Realignment — 10.5281/zenodo.21199231 · supplement Paper 38 — Unification as Ledger — 10.5281/zenodo.21199233 · supplement Paper 39 — Coherent Phase Regimes in the APF Interface Engine — 10.5281/zenodo.21199235 · supplement Paper 40 — The Thermodynamics of Finite Distinction (Between Symmetry and the Void) — 10.5281/zenodo.20684235 · supplement Paper 41 — The Horizon as a Continuation Ledger — 10.5281/zenodo.20684241 · supplement Paper 42 — The Weak Mixing Angle Is Not Free — 10.5281/zenodo.20684245 Paper 43 — The Neutrino Sector — 10.5281/zenodo.21194191 Paper 44 — What a Finite Theory Owes the Continuum — 10.5281/zenodo.21195874 · supplement Paper 45 — What the Vacuum Can Keep — 10.5281/zenodo.21194195 · supplement Paper 46 — The Strong CP Angle Is Not Free — 10.5281/zenodo.21194197 · supplement Paper 47 — The Confinement Antecedent Is Not Forced — 10.5281/zenodo.21194199 · supplement Paper 48 — The Light-Bending Weight Is Not Free — 10.5281/zenodo.21199627 · supplement Technical Supplements cross-link to their main paper via isSupplementTo and to the companion GitHub repository (github.com/Ethan-Brooke) via isDocumentedBy. Author. Ethan Brooke, Independent Researcher, San Anselmo, California, USA. ORCID: 0009-0001-2261-4682 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ethanbrooke GitHub: github.com/Ethan-Brooke Contact: brooke.ethan@gmail.com