Physical Effective Charge Does Not Imply a Canonical Flavor Channel
Two observable-defined effective charges of the same physical RG orbit can be
They share endpoint values, tree normalization, monotonicity, the underlying orbit, and both endpoint critical exponents. At the same portal event they read and .
The curvature extrema of the second record satisfy
The old curvature anchors are not roots, and the polynomial has nonzero resultant 53084160 with its reflection. Thus the effective-charge curvature events remain process-relative even when both records are operationally defined and agree at tree level.
Consequence
The current source-authorized flavor probe family contains multiple labelled record types, including poles, widths, rates, and interference. Such a family may be jointly faithful without selecting one canonical scalar record. Operationality therefore does not imply canonicality or source selection.
The required source principle must derive either a unique conserved-current experiment, including its threshold completion, or a relation natural across the complete physical probe family. Selecting an effective-charge channel after inspecting the desired portal merely relocates the rigidifier.
Evidence
- Packet: research/flavor/flavor-process-relative-effective-charge-no-go.md
- Checker: research/flavor/checkers/wp830_process_relative_effective_charge_no_go.py
- Generated result: research/flavor/results/wp830_process_relative_effective_charge_no_go.json
- Exact result: 10 of 10 checks passed.
- Ledger-sequence claim: seqclaim-828bf937e834b4019662038d, value 3644.
- Graph admission: ev-000000007827-54a3ab63-5c72-4664-9c81-e9a295efc8a1.
Claim boundary
This is a canonical-channel no-go, not a denial that individual effective charges are physical relative to declared instruments. It does not exclude a future conserved-current uniqueness theorem or a probe-natural invariant.