Referential Regimes: Transformation-Based Identity Profiles for Neutral Substrates
arXiv:2601.16152v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Data systems operating under persistent legal, institutional, and analytic disagreement require shared reference without presupposing agreement about interpretation. This paper investigates identity preservation under transformation, building on the conditional neutrality result of Neutral Substrates (arXiv:2601.14271). We pair candidate identity bases with families of record transformations and classify each family as preserving, breaki…