# AMNESS Series II / Paper 02

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Status:
- Formal theory / information-access paper.
- Introduces Layered Discoverability Model (LDM).
- Separates public existence, indexability, retrievability, exposure, name-free discovery, and matched discovery.
- Proves known-name retrievability does not imply name-free discoverability.
- Proves existence does not imply retrievability.
- Gives the Discovery Activation Bound.
- Connects AMNESS to retrievability, retrieval bias, cold-start recommendation, and RAG retrieval bias.

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Date: 2026-08-14