mrwulf 3b13fdbfde paper v0.13: the Green-persona approachability revision ...

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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