{
  "id": "IR-01",
  "uri": "https://cosmological-constant.org/claims/#IR-01",
  "record_type": "Scientific claim",
  "status": "Derived",
  "dependencies": [
    "EXT-01"
  ],
  "downstream_claims": [],
  "source_status": "Derived here",
  "technical_statement": "Direct zero-mode sampling, the local analytic heat-kernel mass expansion (including logarithms multiplying even powers), and Planck-scale QCD instantons do not produce the required linear infrared factor m_p/M_P in the stated one-saddle treatment.",
  "public_statement": "A separate infrared input is required; the direct Planck-scale mechanisms tested do not generate the needed linear QCD hierarchy.",
  "qualifier": "",
  "source_in_paper": "CC Paper I v1.0, Sec. 6",
  "external_foundations": "Vassilevich2003; Buttazzo2013; tHooft1976",
  "limits_open_issues": "Limited to the tested local/direct mechanisms; not a no-go theorem for every nonlocal or UV-complete compact effect.",
  "relations": "",
  "version_history": "v1.2; v1.3 (2026-08-01): source citation updated to the paired-cap revision.",
  "register_version": "v1.6"
}