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A referee persona (deep crypto, shallow Lean, no prior drafts) read the whole paper; all findings applied, ~40 edits, none touching technical content: - house terms defined at first use: certificate (in contributions), accumulator (= the log's Merkle tree + verifiers), signed view (4.2), pin rule/pin-store (named at their definition, 4.3), axiom cone as the one canonical synonym, loop-fidelity glossed, facade tied to its entry point, scope block named in 3.1, oracles marked 'uninterpreted function symbols, not random oracles' - operator 'verdict' renamed label everywhere (Verdict stays the consumer algorithm); fork disambiguated (codebases vs fork evidence) - notation: declarations T_i -> Theta_i (tier collision), HIST chain k kept but challenge scalar -> c and signature bytes -> R-bar (k/r_1 overloads resolved); tiers T1-T4 introduced in 6.1 body - theorem-statement sensitivity: Thm 8 scoped to the recursive verifiers in the STATEMENT; Prop 1's 'exhibited' made conditional with pointer; Thm 3 carries its honest-pin note; Def 2(iii) gets the forgery caveat; Lemma 5 declared a restatement of Prop 2 - ghost references resolved (whole-tree root binding stated in place, twice); revision residue purged (Post-submission -> Subsequently closed; tense unified; hardened state, guarded replay, KNOWN-GAPS explained); 6.2 retitled 'A second instantiation' - six triple-read sentences rewritten per referee (them-sentence, vacuous->trivially-by-counting with real non-vacuity guard wording, pin supplier, physical-execution antecedent, bridges-land, App E factorization) - appendices A-D now each cited from the body; App D states its shared opaque boundary; FIPS 205 added to the bibliography [23] and cited - abstract divergence sentence rewritten (divergence not 'boundary', past tense, closure named, 'the corresponding log entry') Gate green: v0.13, 25pp; pages 1/16/25 eye-checked; suite 156.
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Which file is current?
ltl.pdf / ltl.tex — the current paper (v0.13, revised August 2026).
The review process concluded in August 2026. v0.10 folded in the
corrections queued during the freeze (the closed consistency-verifier
divergence with its sn = 0 root cause, replay-harness-integrity
limitation, claim-matrix row); v0.11 brought the paper up to the live
system: the nineteen-leaf dual-signed deployment, the SLH-DSA (FIPS 205)
verify-path instantiation, and its certificate appendix; v0.12 unified
entry numbering on 0-based leaf indices; v0.13 is the approachability
revision from an external-persona referee pass (house terms defined at
first use, theorem statements carry their own scoping, notation
collisions resolved, FIPS 205 reference added). The
version submitted for review (July 17, 2026, sha256 7f140356…) is
preserved unchanged in this repository's git history. The live copy at
https://ltl.zkdefi.org/paper serves the current revision.
Superseded early drafts (v0.1, v0.2) were removed from the working tree on 2026-08-15; like every prior state of this folder, they remain retrievable from this repository's git history.
Revisions v0.3–v0.9 were successive overwrites of ltl.tex; they live in
this repository's git history. v0.9 is the version that was submitted
for review; v0.10 and v0.11 supersede it.