PAPER-Δ: The Structural Architecture of Physical Reality--A Minimal Ontological Constitution for the DCQ–FBT Framework

We present a minimal ontological constitution for the Discrete–Continuous Quantization and Fracture–Berry–Tension (DCQ–FBT) framework. Rather than proposing a new dynamical model, this paper specifies the structural conditions under which any physical model may qualify as admissible.

The central claim is that physical reality is neither object–based nor field–based at its most fundamental level, but is instead constituted by invariant geometric and algebraic structures. From this perspective, physical degrees of freedom, dynamical histories, and discrete physical constants arise as constrained representations of a deeper structural substrate.

We formulate four postulates that together define a closed logical architecture:

(i) Structural Realism, specifying what is ontologically real;

(ii) Symplectic Admissibility, defining what counts as physically observable;

(iii) Modal Determinism, characterizing how physical histories are selected from the space of admissible processes;

and (iv) Topological Locking, explaining the stability and discreteness of integer and quantized physical structures.

These postulates do not constitute a complete physical theory. Rather, they function as a constitutional layer that constrains the form of any viable theory in which physical phase space and interaction structure are required to emerge from a higher–level geometric parent.