A Conservation Law for Commitment in Language Under Transformative
Compression and Recursive Application
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Author: Deric J. McHenry
Affiliation: Ello Cello LLC
Contact: burnmyday@proton.me
Version: V.04 — Technical Structure Depth
Date: February 26, 2026

Previous DOIs:
  V.1-preprint  — 10.5281/zenodo.18267279
  V.02          — 10.5281/zenodo.18271102
  V.03          — 10.5281/zenodo.18274930
  V.04          — 10.5281/zenodo.18792459

Files included:
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v.04_CCL3_2026.pdf                   — Compiled paper (primary document)
main.tex                             — LaTeX source (main file)
main.md                              — Markdown version of the paper
fig2_commitment_stability.tex        — Figure 2: Commitment stability
fig3.tex                             — Figure 3
fig5_stress_regimes.tex              — Figure 5: Stress regimes
fig6_lattice.tex                     — Figure 6: Lattice structure
fig7_token_trajectory.tex            — Figure 7: Token trajectory
fig8_total_comparison.tex            — Figure 8: Total comparison
Comm_Sys.jpg                         — Figure 1: Communication system diagram
fig4.jpg                             — Figure 4

To compile the LaTeX source:
  pdflatex main.tex  (run twice for references)

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