Prospective Containment in Recursive Systems: A Structural Synthesis of Stability and Revocation

This paper provides a structural synthesis of two previously published foundational results by the author:

(i) A Structural Grammar for Bounded Recursion: Signal, Collapse, Containment, and Proportional Delay (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18135783), and

(ii) The Revocation Barrier: Why Memory Reset Is Not a Well-Defined Operation in Many Agentic AI Systems (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18142452).

The paper introduces no new theoretical primitives, results, or claims. Its purpose is to make explicit the shared structural constraint underlying both works: that stability and meaningful reversibility in recursive systems require prospective containment of influence through explicitly governed boundaries.

This synthesis is intended as an interpretive and clarifying bridge for readers working in systems theory, formal semantics, and agentic AI governance. It should be read in conjunction with the cited papers, which remain the primary sources of all technical results.