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Regenerative Cycle Architecture

Six Structural Invariants

Definition

The necessary conditions for regenerative behaviour in any capital system: (1) Non-extractive, (2) Non-liability, (3) Multi-cycle regeneration, (4) Cycle-aligned deployment, (5) Decentralised agency, (6) Compounding system value.

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PSC satisfies all six: no interest extraction, no debt on books, capital persists through cycles, deployment matches mission timing, beneficiaries choose pay-forward timing, and total value compounds over time.

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RCA Section 4

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Regenerative Cycle Architecture (RCA)

Decoupling OperatorΔ (Delta)

Alignment OperatorΛ (Lambda)

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