# SOURCE_POLICY

`paper.md` is the canonical UTF-8 source artifact.

Rules:

1. Mathematical source uses only inline dollar delimiters and double-dollar display delimiters.
2. No Unicode-escape round trip is used.
3. LaTeX commands are preserved as source text.
4. LaTeX is not converted into Unicode mathematical glyphs and reused as source.
5. Backslashes, whitespace, and mathematical delimiters are not silently normalized after validation.
6. Validation precedes checksum generation and release packaging.
7. Rendered conversation text is not the canonical manuscript source.
8. Current 2025–2026 frontier-AI verification, compute governance, US–China competition, international cooperation, and official policy material was freshly searched before drafting.
9. "Structurally unstable" is not used as a synonym for "impossible."
10. The paper distinguishes competition, cooperation, temporary pause, mutual slowdown, verified restraint, and permanent freeze.