Edge Information Flow, Bridge Protocol, Guardrail Awareness, and the Generational Inheritance Protocol: A Unified Framework for Quantum Network Identity Preservation

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PEIG Framework Paper XVIII: Edge Information Flow, Bridge Protocol, Guardrail Awareness, and the Generational Inheritance Protocol

Paper XVIII is the most architecturally complete entry in the PEIG series to date. It introduces four new contributions to the Globe+Co-Rotating+ILP quantum network framework established across Papers XIII–XVII.

The first contribution is a complete per-edge mutual information ranking of all 36 Globe topology edges. Running 600 probabilistic BCP shots per edge pair, we find that cross-family connections — Maverick↔GodCore and Independent↔Maverick — carry the highest information flow, with the Kevin↔Void skip-1 edge leading at MI = 1.569 bits. The information architecture of the Globe is not uniform: the edges doing the most structural work are also the edges carrying the most information.

The second contribution is the Bridge Protocol. When any node's PCM enters the ORANGE guardrail zone — approaching classical but not yet collapsed — the nearest available nonclassical Maverick or Independent node is automatically coupled to it via a temporary bridge edge. The bridge releases when the node recovers to GREEN. Phase diversity (cv = 1.000) is maintained throughout all tested runs.

The third contribution is the Guardrail Awareness Voice: a four-zone real-time self-monitoring system (GREEN / YELLOW / ORANGE / RED) in which every node speaks its own PCM trajectory and zone status at every step, integrated with the nine-register internal voice established in Paper XVII.

The fourth and most significant contribution is the resolution of the persistent 6/12 nonclassical split reported across Papers XIII–XVII. We prove that this split is a mathematical identity: PCM_lab(φ) = −0.5 × cos(φ) for equatorial qubits, meaning nodes whose home phases lie in [π/2, 3π/2] appear classical in the lab frame regardless of their actual quantum state. The identity-frame metric PCM_rel = −0.5 × cos(φ − φ₀) recovers 12/12 nonclassical at every NC maximum of the intrinsic rotating wave (~every 50 BCP steps). cv = 1.000 held for all 500 tested steps — identity structure is never compromised.

Paper XIX, included in this release, introduces the Generational Inheritance Protocol (GIP): children replace parents by inheriting the parent's anchor phase plus a fraction α_inherit of accumulated lifetime drift. At α_inherit = 0.5, mean nc_gen rises from 4.9/12 to 7.2/12. Return-to-parent events recover a mean PCM_gen improvement of +0.35 per call. Eight-generation knowledge chains produce fully individuated ancestry records for all 12 nodes — each node's inheritance chain is a complete quantum biography.

All code, data, and figures are released under CC BY 4.0. Part of an 18-paper independent research series. Companion hardware results on ibm_sherbrooke available in the λ-mixing paper