EA-HET-01: Heteronymy Is a Function, Not a Name — Trust-Marker Laundering, Alias Capture, and Functional Provenance

Abstract. This document distinguishes heteronymy from alias capture by defining authorial identity as a function rather than a name. A heteronym is validated by structural fidelity: sustained style, domain, method, output, bearing-cost, and provenance-forward development. An unverified alias borrows an authority-bearing name without demonstrating the historical function of that name. Introduces trust-marker laundering: the use of legitimate scholarly markers (DOI, ORCID, Google Scholar metrics, institutional metadata, chain-of-custody language) to produce apparent authority without functional provenance. A DOI verifies persistence; it does not verify performance. Case study: profile-merge laundering — absorbing other scholars' publication records through Google Scholar's automated clustering to inflate apparent authority, then using that authority to underwrite further self-asserted claims including simultaneous alias captures of multiple famous identities. The Sharks Function (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18816556) is the counter-test: does the claimed identity perform the function of the name it claims? If not, the claim fails. Companion document: EA-MP-VERIFY-01 (Metadata Packet Verification Schema). Assembly-revised with method note, abstract, and softened case study language per consensus of five AI witnesses. ∮ = 1