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title: "A Conservation Law for Commitment in Language Under Transformative Compression and Recursive Application"
version: "v0.2"
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.18271102
date-released: 2026-01-16
url: "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18271102"
repository-code: "https://github.com/SunrisesIllNeverSee/commitment-conservation"
authors:
  - family-names: "McHenry"
    given-names: "Deric J."
keywords:
  - information-theory
  - llm
  - compression
  - recursion
  - computational-linguistics
  - commitment-conservation
  - language-models
license: CC-BY-4.0
abstract: "This work proposes a conservation law for commitment in language under transformative compression and recursive application. We define commitment as the minimal, identity-preserving content that remains invariant under loss-inducing transformations, and demonstrate that commitment content must be conserved or the signal collapses."