Primitive provenance audit

The full document is PROVENANCE_AUDIT.md at the repository root. See also The 9 truly-independent primitives for the 9 truly-independent primitives table.

Provenance grades

Grade	Meaning
A++	Mathematical necessity (algebra dimension, group order, structural derivation)
A	First-principles paper with explicit derivation chain
B+ / B	Paper derives from other UQFF quantities + one measurement anchor
C+ / C	Paper specifies the value with limited derivation; awaits further analysis

PAPER_1521/1522 LANDMARK reduction

In session 2026-06-18, two primitives previously listed as “locked canonical” were proven derivative:

D_BSFG = D_crit − 2·SO_5 = 26 − 20 = 6 EXACT (PAPER_1521)
K_MEX = Φ_5/6 · SO_5 / D_phys = (5/6)·10/4 = 25/12 EXACT (PAPER_1522)

Net effect: the “11 locked canonical primitives” count reduced to 9 truly independent + 2 derivative, strengthening the ΔBIC parameter- economy comparison against SM+ΛCDM by 2·ln(N_obs).

Resolved open questions

Q3 (resolved 2026-06-18): Can SSq be derived from F_TRZ + Φ_res?

Answer: No. Exhaustive numerical search over all 2-element and 3-element combinations of the other primitives with operators {+, −, ×, ÷, 1−x, composite} yields NO match within 0.3% of SSq=0.57. The closest accidental near-matches (4/7 = 0.5714, 7/12 = 0.5833) have no UQFF structural interpretation. SSq is truly independent at the rational-arithmetic level. PAPER_1154 may derive it from a transcendental fixed-point relation, but this does not reduce the primitive count.

Open questions (queued for Tier-1B / Tier-2)

Q4: Can β_i = 0.6029 be derived?
Q5: Is N_CH = 9 derivable from D_BSFG + D_phys?
Per-paper consistency table showing which papers cite which primitive at which precision.
Numerical sensitivity ∂(closure RMS residual)/∂(primitive value) per primitive.