
ZSA is a first-order bookkeeping framework for boundary-governed admissibility in systems where extension, coherence, valuation, and partial measurement interact. We study semantic universes equipped with a configuration preorder, a coherence relation, a valuation into a partially ordered value domain, and a partial measurement operator. Under explicit closure and stability assumptions, we prove an Infinity–Measurement Boundary Theorem: if unbounded extensibility and nontrivial partial measurement, with propagation and eventual stability along coherent increasing chains, both hold, then there exists a ⪯-least boundary configuration Z, unique up to ≡⪯, such that every measured configuration extends Z, and measurement is stable along coherent increasing chains above Z whenever a limit exists. Motivated by this, we introduce the Zero-State Axioms (ZSA) in a first-order language naming a distinguished constant Z. We show that a boundary fragment of ZSA is forced in the induced expansion extracted from any universe satisfying the IMB hypotheses. We further show that one axiom is derivable from another over the fixed semantic background, and that the remaining core axioms are independent via explicit countermodels. We also supply reference-chain and product-style model constructions demonstrating consistency and flexibility. Finally, under an invariance hypothesis for admissible reassignment on a fixed underlying frame, we derive a semantic pinning property: no strict predecessor of Z can serve as the boundary while preserving the relevant valuation and measurement profile off its downward cone. This record also includes the technical follow-up “Relative IMB and Structural Decoupling.” That paper develops the relative form of the IMB mechanism: where a sub-layer Y carries the required internal semantic and closure packet, IMB can be re-applied inside Y, forcing a Y-internal boundary Z_Y, unique up to the Y-internal preorder equivalence. It also introduces structural decoupling as a witness-level failure of ambient measurement certification for Y-internal measured-limit behaviour. The follow-up functions as the bridge from global ZSA boundary structure to relative boundary formation and conditional transmission problems. The record should therefore be read as a two-part package: the ZSA manuscript establishes the global boundary-forcing framework, while the relative IMB follow-up shows how the same mechanism can recur internally under explicit sub-layer readiness and decoupling conditions.
Model Theory, Admissibility Boundary, Foundations of Mathematics, Independence (Model Theory), Axiomatic Logic, Semantic Models, Zero-State Axioms, Unbounded Extensibility, Infinity–Measurement Boundary, Partial Measurement, Logical Minimality, Coherence, Semantic Structures
Model Theory, Admissibility Boundary, Foundations of Mathematics, Independence (Model Theory), Axiomatic Logic, Semantic Models, Zero-State Axioms, Unbounded Extensibility, Infinity–Measurement Boundary, Partial Measurement, Logical Minimality, Coherence, Semantic Structures
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