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Falsified FALSIFIED — the BII "gluing" prescription contributes nothing (it is a coboundary)

id: coboundary-gluing-dead · filed: 2026-09-24 · depends: method-mechanism-first · falsifier: verified — invariant mismatch 2e-16 for all λ; the factor shears away

What died: the v0.4.1 proposal that adjacent Menger factors are "glued" by a phase prescription (BII). The proposal's phases are a coboundary — gauge-equivalent to zero — so the entire Menger factor shears out of any observable built on it.

Mechanism-level point [F]: in a gauge theory, a "gluing rule" that is a coboundary is not a weak gluing; it is no gluing. Any physical content of such a prescription must live in the cohomology class, which here is trivial. This is why the program re-founded flatness on explicit H₁ holonomy instead.

Downstream: every subsequent flat-bundle result uses cocycle (cohomology) language with exact flatness checks. Nothing currently in the registry depends on BII.