Preprint / scholarly article
Observer-Modifying Contagion on Networks
- Published
- DOI
- 10.5281/zenodo.19342966
Abstract
This preprint develops a finite-horizon certificate framework for observer-modifying contagion on networks, where exposure can also change later diagnosability and auditability. It formalizes self-concealment, internal blindness, external recovery, delayed audit, and fail-closed containment claims under explicit comparison semantics.
Keywords
- observer-modifying contagion
- network contagion
- self-concealment
- diagnosability
- internal blindness
- external recovery
- delayed audit
- comparison of experiments
- Blackwell ordering
- finite-horizon certificates
- compositional certificate framework
- witness lineages
- persistence on networks
- mutation robustness
- active-support counts
- fail-closed semantics
- accountable containment
- AI safety
- information propagation
- semantic hazard