Publication architecture
Choose the science before the submission sequence
Publication follows three research programs, not a six-paper quota. Candidate-package readiness preserves evidence and packaging state; it does not establish a scientific flagship, journal acceptance, or a submission decision.
Updated August 4, 2026
The rule: paper count follows distinct scientific questions and publishable contributions—not the number of files already in the repository. There are three programs, six eventual standalone works, and one integrated supporting data release (P3).
Execution order: P2 → P1A → P4 → P1B → P5. The anomaly rerun proceeds in parallel; its flagship is drafted only if its regenerated evidence is scientifically and reproducibly strong enough.
Active decision: Review the exact P2 candidate →
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Research programs
Each program starts with its question, lead result, and boundary. Specialist outputs and technical candidates remain linked as evidence rather than being treated as equal flagships.
Primary theory result with a boundary Note and reusable research software.
Bounce theory
Question: Does matter-dominated contraction produce a distinctive, reproducible primordial non-Gaussian amplitude?
Current result: P2 rederives the stated matter-contraction amplitude f_NL^local = −35/16; its survey mapping remains conditional, not a detection forecast.
Boundary: Nonlinear transmission through a specified bounce completion and survey-native covariance remain open scientific conditions.
Flagship rebuild active. Current P3 is technical provenance support, not the discovery paper.
DESI anomaly discovery
Question: What unusual spectra emerge from a full-scale DESI anomaly search, and which candidates survive scientific validation?
Current result: A discovery-focused flagship is being rebuilt around the preserved 2,145-row filtered slice and 1,127 SIMBAD/NED-unmatched candidate taxonomy.
Boundary: The enhanced parent catalog, exact model, score lineage, and selection reproducibility must be restored or regenerated before a flagship manuscript is drafted.
Primary catalog result with a distinct standalone AJ environment companion.
Galaxy chirality
Question: Is there a large-scale observed-label chirality dipole in the released DESI imaging catalog?
Current result: P4 releases the catalog and reports a declared primary observed-label dipole consistent with zero.
Boundary: The result is not a physical primordial-parity constraint; morphology transfer and systematics remain open.
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What we publish, and what supports it
Manuscripts make scientific arguments. Data, checkpoints, and code make those arguments inspectable and reusable; they are tracked separately so no artifact is mistaken for a paper or a discovery claim.
Manuscripts and releases
Six standalone works are the endpoint; P3 is an integrated supporting data release, not a seventh discovery paper.
- Role
- Lead theory paper
- Status
- Selected standalone manuscript
- Destination
- Physical Review D
- Depends on
- Stated bounce-transmission and survey-covariance conditions
- Next gate
- Houston visual approval, then independent review
- Role
- Focused theory Note
- Status
- Selected standalone manuscript
- Destination
- CQG Note
- Depends on
- Narrow algebraic scope and venue fit
- Next gate
- Houston visual approval, then independent review
- Role
- Research-software metapaper
- Status
- Selected standalone manuscript
- Destination
- JORS software paper
- Depends on
- Installable package and independent software review
- Next gate
- Houston visual approval, then independent review
- Role
- Discovery paper
- Status
- New work; rebuild in parallel
- Destination
- Venue chosen after reproducible result exists
- Depends on
- Immutable parent catalog, model, score/selection lineage, and candidate validation
- Next gate
- Complete the fail-closed DESI rerun before drafting
- Role
- Lead catalog/null-result paper
- Status
- Selected standalone manuscript
- Destination
- Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
- Depends on
- Released labels, stated observed-label scope, and systematic boundary
- Next gate
- Houston visual approval, then independent review
- Role
- Independent companion null test
- Status
- Selected standalone manuscript
- Destination
- Astronomical Journal
- Depends on
- Catalog-native joins and controlled environment null
- Next gate
- Houston visual approval, then independent review
- Role
- Integrated supporting data release
- Status
- Citable provenance support
- Destination
- Bundle with rebuilt anomaly flagship
- Depends on
- Frozen historical list and transparent match-confidence split
- Next gate
- Maintain versioned release; do not submit as a discovery paper
Data products
Catalogs are reusable research outputs. They support papers but are not themselves evidence for a bounce.
- Role
- Historical-list provenance dataset
- Status
- Released supporting data
- Destination
- Integrated with rebuilt anomaly flagship
- Depends on
- P3’s frozen-list provenance
- Next gate
- Keep match-confidence and scope labels with every reuse
- Role
- Observed-label catalog
- Status
- Released research dataset
- Destination
- P4 lead paper and P5 companion
- Depends on
- Classifier/systematics documentation
- Next gate
- Archive final paper-linked snapshot after approval
Models and checkpoints
Models are implementation artifacts, not independent scientific claims.
- Role
- Historical exploratory checkpoint
- Status
- Legacy/superseded for flagship science
- Destination
- Provenance record only
- Depends on
- Rebuilt flagship requires a hash-bound replacement
- Next gate
- Do not use for new discovery claims; regenerate under the rerun contract
- Role
- Parity-equivariant classifier checkpoint
- Status
- Released reusable model
- Destination
- P4/P5 reproducibility support
- Depends on
- Catalog’s observed-label and morphology-transfer boundary
- Next gate
- Freeze the paper-linked model snapshot with final catalog release
Software and code
Code makes results inspectable; only P1B is a software paper in its own right.
- Role
- Exact-window verification software
- Status
- Released; P1B’s subject
- Destination
- JORS metapaper and reusable package
- Depends on
- Independent software review and release metadata
- Next gate
- Houston approval, then independent software review
- Role
- Reproducibility infrastructure
- Status
- Active rebuild
- Destination
- Evidence backbone for anomaly flagship
- Depends on
- Sealed inputs, model/scaler hashes, shard receipts, deterministic selection
- Next gate
- Execute and validate clean rerun
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Approved portfolio decisions
These decisions settle what each output is for. The remaining work is manuscript review, flagship reconstruction, and then the separate endorsement and submission phase.
DESI anomaly flagship
Rebuild the discovery paper only after the enhanced parent, model, score lineage, and selection reproducibility are restored or regenerated. Current P3 is technical provenance support.
P3 role approved
The public-ID recovery is a citable supporting data release integrated with the rebuilt anomaly flagship, not a standalone ApJS submission.
P5 role approved
The chirality–environment null test remains a standalone AJ companion because it asks a distinct environment-dependence question with its own joins and controlled null.
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Candidate package evidence
Every candidate remains available with its exact PDF and artifact record. The evidence percentage below is a packaging/review record, not a claim that the paper is science-complete, independently publishable, or awaiting endorsement only.
| Candidate | Portfolio role | Evidence record | Artifact |
|---|
| 1Algebraic Cartan Elimination in Minimal Einstein–Cartan–Holst Gravity: Spin-Sourced Contact and Zero-Spin Scalar Branches | Focused Theory Note · ECH Boundary Result
Selected standalone submission · Bounce theory | 95%
Versioned review and package evidence | Read PDF |
| 1Bnamaster-proof: Exact pseudo-Cℓ Window Inference and Tamper-Evident Provenance for Reproducible Spin-2 Analyses | Research Software · Exact-Window Verification
Selected standalone submission · Bounce theory | 95%
Versioned review and package evidence | Read PDF |
| 2The Exact Matter-Contraction Non-Gaussian Amplitude: Four-Vertex Derivation and Conditional Large-Scale-Structure Mapping | Lead Theory Paper · Matter-Contraction Non-Gaussianity
Selected standalone submission · Bounce theory | 95%
Versioned review and package evidence | Read PDF |
| 3Public-ID Recovery for a Historical DESI DR1 Anomaly List: 170 High-Coordinate-Consistency Core and 11 Lower-Confidence Positional Associations | Supporting Data Release · DESI Public-ID Recovery
Integrated support release · DESI anomaly discovery | 95%
Versioned review and package evidence | Read PDF |
| 4An Observed-Label Chirality-Dipole Null in 890,069 Quality-Controlled High-Confidence DESI Spirals and an 8.5-Million-Galaxy Catalog | Lead Catalog Paper · Observed-Label Chirality Null
Selected standalone submission · Galaxy chirality | 95%
Versioned review and package evidence | Read PDF |
| 5Environmental Dependence of Spiral Chirality: A DESIVAST Catalog-Native Void Non-Detection with Secondary Cosmic-Web Cross-Checks | Standalone Companion · Chirality–Environment Null Test
Selected standalone submission · Galaxy chirality | 95%
Versioned review and package evidence | Read PDF |
Detailed package paths and review state are retained in research programs and the review record.