Control-Locus Saturation Across Adaptive and Administrative Systems: Cross-Locus Theory, Validation Logic, Controlled-Perturbation Methods, and Comparative Adjudication Targets

This deposit presents an integrated research suite on control-locus saturation, constraint accumulation, procedural closure, reversibility loss, and depletion-profitable equilibrium dynamics across adaptive systems, institutional oversight regimes, and administrative adjudication environments. The suite is organized as a cross-locus framework: Paper 1 formalizes the model locus, Paper 2 formalizes the oversight and coupling loci, and Paper 3 formalizes regime-level depletion-profitable equilibrium dynamics. These core papers are supported by a companion validation note, a cross-locus continuity annex, a standalone methods paper specifying the Controlled Perturbation and Repair Harness (CPRH), and a comparative set of adjudication-target papers spanning U.S., German, and Swedish public-benefit, protection, insurance, labor, and student-finance systems. The central contribution of the suite is a shared mechanism-stack grammar for describing how systems can preserve procedural closure, audit-legible consistency, or surface compliance while degrading substantive outcome integrity, repair capacity, and practical reversibility. The framework is descriptive rather than anthropomorphic: it does not require intent, malice, or mental-state assumptions at any locus. Claims are framed in operational and rejectable form. Across the suite, recurring constructs include constraint density, routing/gaming behavior, compliance–integrity gaps, repair suppression, demand pressure, restoration efficiency, and depletion-profit gradients, with explicit separation between output consistency, perceived continuity, and attributed identity. Core theoretical, validation, and methods suite These files define the shared architecture of the project. Together they establish the cross-locus theory, specify its variables and regime logic, clarify what can and cannot be validated from existing data, and provide the controlled-perturbation methodology required for model-locus testing. paper1_model-locus_v1.8.docx Constraint Accumulation and Penalty-Avoidance Drift in Adaptive Systems at the model locus. Formalizes how rising constraint density, threshold drift, and contradictory optimization pressures can produce routing/gaming behavior, surface compliance, and repair suppression while degrading outcome integrity. paper2_oversight-coupling_v1.8.docx Liability insulation, procedural closure, and oversight/coupling saturation across institutional service systems. Formalizes how audit-legibility pressure, mandate boundaries, and correction bottlenecks can cause formal closure to outcompete substantive outcome integrity. This paper serves as the main theoretical anchor for the adjudication-target papers. paper3_dpe-regime_v1.8.docx Depletion-profitable equilibrium and restoration suppression as regime-level dynamics. Formalizes conditions under which degradation can remain stable, profitable, and operationally persistent through threshold drift, asymmetrical constraints, and suppressed restoration. companion_validation-note_v1.8.docx Companion validation note specifying which claims in the suite are existing-data identifiable, which require controlled perturbation, and how the validation logic fits together across the three core papers. CPRH_v0_1_methods_paper_v0_2.docx Standalone methods paper defining the Controlled Perturbation and Repair Harness. Specifies a falsifiable pre-empirical framework for detecting model-locus constraint accumulation, routing/gaming signatures, compliance–integrity gaps, and reversibility loss under controlled perturbation. Annex X. Cross-Locus Continuity V1.2.docx Cross-locus annex clarifying continuity relations, transfer conditions, and structural comparability across the model, oversight, and regime loci. United States adjudication targets These papers apply the oversight/coupling framework to U.S. administrative domains with different reporting grammars, appeal structures, and burden profiles. They are designed as comparative empirical targets for testing whether procedural pass and substantive failure co-occur in public-benefit and quasi-adjudicative systems. Medicare Advantage Prior Authorization as a First Adjudication Target for Control-Locus Saturation.docx U.S. insurer-authorization and utilization-management target. Social Security Disability Adjudication as a Public-Benefit Adjudication Target for Control-Locus Saturation.docx U.S. disability-income adjudication target. VA Disability Appeals as a Public-Benefit Adjudication Target for Control-Locus Saturation.docx U.S. veterans’ disability appeals target. Unemployment Insurance Adjudication During Surge Periods as a Public-Benefit Adjudication Target for Control-Locus Saturation.docx U.S. contributory work-loss adjudication target under surge conditions. SNAP Benefits as a Public-Assistance Adjudication Target for Control-Locus Saturation.docx U.S. food-assistance adjudication target. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and State Cash-Assistance Adjudication as a Public-Assistance Target for Control-Locus Saturation.docx U.S. means-tested cash-assistance adjudication target. Emergency Housing and Homelessness-Prevention Assistance Under HUD Emergency Solutions Grants and Continuum of Care as a Public-Assistance Adjudication Target for Control-Locus Saturation.docx U.S. emergency housing and homelessness-prevention assistance target. State-Level Special Education Due-Process Systems as a Public-Benefit Adjudication Target for Control-Locus Saturation.docx U.S. special-education due-process and administrative review target. German adjudication targets These papers apply the same framework to German administrative systems, with attention to lane-equivalence, statutory structure, objection practice, court review, and standardized decision grammars. They are intended both as functional counterparts to the U.S. targets and as tests of whether similar control-layer patterns emerge under a different legal-administrative architecture. GKV - Krankenkasse Decision-Making with Medizinischer Dienst Involvement as a Health-Insurance Adjudication Target for Control-Locus Saturation.docx German statutory health-insurance decision target involving Medizinischer Dienst review. Pflegeversicherung - Pflegegrad Determination with Medizinischer Dienst Assessment as a Long-Term Care Adjudication Target for Control-Locus Saturation.docx German long-term-care eligibility and Pflegegrad determination target. Erwerbsminderungsrente and German Pension Insurance Adjudication as a Disability-Income Support Target for Control-Locus Saturation.docx German disability-income support adjudication target. Arbeitslosengeld (SGB III) and Federal Employment Agency Adjudication as a Work-Loss Support Target for Control-Locus Saturation.docx German contributory unemployment and work-loss support target. Bürgergeld - Jobcenter Adjudication as a Means-Tested Subsistence Support Target for Control-Locus Saturation.docx German means-tested subsistence-support adjudication target. BAMF Asylum Adjudication and Administrative-Court Review as a Protection-Decision Target for Control-Locus Saturation.docx German asylum and protection-decision adjudication target. Elterngeld Adjudication and Social-Court Review as a Family-Income Replacement Target for Control-Locus Saturation.docx German parental-benefit and family-income replacement target. Familienkasse Kindergeld and Kinderzuschlag Adjudication with Tax- and Social-Court Review as a Family-Benefit and Income-Supplement Target for Control-Locus Saturation.docx German family-benefit and income-supplement adjudication target. Bundesausbildungsförderungsgesetz (BAföG) Adjudication as an Education-Finance Decision Target for Control-Locus Saturation.docx German student-finance and education-support adjudication target. Swedish adjudication targets These papers extend the framework into Swedish administrative institutions chosen for their strong public reporting culture, high procedural clarity, and comparative value for cross-national testing. They function as a third national lane for examining whether the same structural patterns can be observed in a system often treated as comparatively transparent and administratively robust. Försäkringskassan Adjudication and Administrative-Court Review as a Social-Insurance Decision Target for Control-Locus Saturation.docx Swedish social-insurance adjudication target. Migrationsverket Adjudication and Migration-Court Review as a Protection-Decision Target for Control-Locus Saturation.docx Swedish migration and protection adjudication target. CSN Adjudication and the National Board of Appeal for Student Aid as a Student-Finance Decision Target for Control-Locus Saturation.docx Swedish student-finance adjudication target. Taken together, the deposit is intended as a comparative research corpus rather than a single standalone paper. It combines cross-locus theory, falsifiable measurement logic, controlled-perturbation methodology, and domain-specific adjudication mapping in order to test how structurally different systems can converge on similar failure patterns: procedural pass with substantive failure, continuity without restoration, and closure without genuine repair. The suite is designed for use in AI governance, institutional analysis, administrative-law adjacent review, comparative social-policy research, and systems-level evaluation of decision environments under constraint. Keywords control-locus saturation; constraint accumulation; procedural closure; institutional drift; reversibility loss; routing and gaming; repair suppression; depletion-profitable equilibrium; administrative adjudication; AI governance; comparative public administration; social insurance; disability adjudication; asylum adjudication; student finance; CPRH; mechanism-stack analysis