Algebraic Cartan Elimination in Minimal Einstein–Cartan–Holst Gravity: Spin-Sourced Contact and Zero-Spin Scalar Branches

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Attached: Paper 1 v1A.0.127 — "Algebraic Cartan Elimination in Minimal Einstein–Cartan–Holst Gravity: Spin-Sourced Contact and Zero-Spin Scalar Branches"
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PDF: PDF · 8 pp · v1A.0.127 · updated Jul 24, 2026 · md5 0bc1ee72836c867114118521cf86e1c2 — v1A.0.127 makes the IOP-mandatory declarations actually compile: the whole acknowledgements block sat inside a commented-out region with the cut cosmology material, so the Note had shipped with no competing-interests, funding, or AI-usage statement. A new Note-scoped block was written rather than un-commenting the old one, and Data and Code Availability was promoted to its own section. Archival deposit PUBLISHED (Houston go): DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21481838 (CC-BY-4.0). No readiness change.

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   - Convention-pinned minimal ECH axial four-fermion contact term
   - Canonical zero-spin scalar branch and torsion-free Bianchi reduction
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