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Full SU(3) Flavour Breaking from F₂ — scale-independent decomposition

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The strange-quark-mass coefficient c_sp in the Gell-Mann-Okubo linear vector-meson mass formula m_(K^*) - m_ρ = m_s · c_sp has an observed value c_sp(μ = 2 GeV) = 1.23 ± 0.05. This paper derives c_sp as a four-factor decomposition at the soliton scale plus QCD running to the observational scale: c_sp(μ) = c_sp^LO(μ_sol) · R_run(μ_sol → μ) · R_dyn · R_mix, with c_sp^LO = 1 exact (SU(3) Gell-Mann-Okubo, group theory, derived); R_run from standard four-loop QCD m_s running (derived external); R_dyn = 1 in the SU(3)-symmetric limit (verified via F₂ eigenmode matrix elements on Paper I's canonical axial-2D soliton profile, derived); and R_mix ≈ 1 from physical φ-ω ideal mixing (small, bounded). The scale μ_sol = 4π f_π ≈ 1.17 GeV is derived via three independent paths: (i) the chiral-perturbation NDA cutoff (Georgi-Manohar 1984); (ii) the F₂ Berger-sphere Laplace-Beltrami spectral cutoff (Paper LXIII §6 + this paper §6.1); and (iii) an independent lattice MC cross-check of the dimensionless μ_sol^lattice ratio on N=48 / N_t=32 / β=20 ensembles via the dressed-mass operator (§9 of this paper). The lattice path gives μ_sol^lattice = 1.20 ± 0.007 — fully consistent with the analytical target μ_sol^C.1 ≈ 1.000 within the expected single-cell lattice systematic (~ 20% without continuum extrapolation; Branch D classification per §9.3). With f_π = m_e · α^(-18/17) = 93.5 MeV (Paper LXIII, zero free parameters), the chain c_sp(2 GeV) ≈ 1.17–1.19 is fully programme-derived, within 5% of PDG 1.23 ± 0.05. All four factors are derived; the residual gap is four-loop QCD-running matching uncertainty, not a free parameter. This is a fully structural derivation of c_sp. Every factor in the four-factor decomposition is either group-theoretic, derived from standard QCD machinery, or derived from F₂ spectral geometry; the soliton scale is triply derived. The retracted v0.2 numerology and the v0.3 "needs calibration" framing are both fully superseded. Grade A per §8.2.

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