. . . . "In the 4 May 2026 snapshot, aggregated ratio mass falls off steeply with depth and the total stays clearly below the bound of Lemma 1, leaving more than three quarters of the trust score budget unused. The ratio gate alone keeps every path within five hops of the seed, without the MAX_DEPTH parameter ever being invoked." . . . . "Observation of ratio mass far below the bound" . . . "computational evidence" . "2026-08-18T09:22:02Z"^^ . . . . . . . . . "RSA" . "MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAxxo+arlpyxYYoHYYVTNSOWe/es90yVMBA8vaDyaAQk4pnOjTlpPptP5IkGg6zuCRIlm11QrHKkiU536witBT6gdh9kP9ay3S6m7wZ3iM7YcPMfhVHUXN6TBnuiKHHyJdVeK6RxMZlfXRKEz9HYcND+PGCXMVp8BofpKBKke3y4m8FTt+8aMEcgVcFBHFdrkWXoIIvkMlodtXkMgSwuGK8yXt/9lXqChIWpsbzu2juuX6pktMkfexkfQTwIH7oNSr/ma4KzZXERuLrCSO6IH5SfWXwjQUery6rKHiEMyie58mgBf0ssKh+uJoaZOqgbmj0f+EDwTIzq0dNsPA0A+n2QIDAQAB" . "U8SNUGyD7xJb5ccZg6WWJ+fcRcWFBwsJIhufrfHw/pXZAm8vClCd7ShKoEoUaj63/XjEKCTufHnHSgqFAnnvrSuXexm7B2PZQR2+Yv5Ykxux/SolQuJKWCzzmhYOIHIeMSWndUme0GwpeD4Wz3s5Hs4ScF4CZBh4hQ9St6xXrGpzVF21SrG7Us+QE7NpTDQSdeRc+WN4PgfcgOUZGtLlF9gFh/TPG0yFt3ROCk+C/QfDLYWeamOGofHrXj9jUpEekYuiONL/VjpAAQupk3fkHfcms0fBpwPt0D0071QoEGCjr8VXGQQoEhY5pEjlmaxyhEVFCo90i9pvk2xTrqd+lw==" . . .