{
  "id": "SAD-02",
  "uri": "https://cosmological-constant.org/claims/#SAD-02",
  "record_type": "Scientific claim",
  "status": "Selected",
  "dependencies": [
    "SAD-01"
  ],
  "downstream_claims": [
    "SAD-03",
    "SAD-05",
    "NORM-02",
    "NUM-01",
    "INT-04",
    "CMP-03"
  ],
  "technical_statement": "The defining Feynman-Lefschetz contour includes the compact round-S4 thimble with the decaying orientation e^{-|S_EH|}.",
  "public_statement": "The strict channel selects the suppressed compact S4 thimble: the damped weight e^(-B) = e^(-24 pi^2).",
  "qualifier": "",
  "source_in_paper": "CC Paper I v1.0, Sec. 9, “Sourced Feynman/Lefschetz contour”",
  "external_foundations": "Witten2011; FLT2017; DDHHHT2017; Lehners2023",
  "limits_open_issues": "Contour inclusion, orientation and Stokes data are not independently derived; the opposite Hartle-Hawking orientation would give exp(+24 pi^2), about 10^206 too large, and is a named falsifying alternative.",
  "relations": "",
  "version_history": "v1.2; v1.3 (2026-08-01): open effects gain the named falsifying orientation.; v1.4c (2026-08-04): public wording states the selected damped weight explicitly",
  "register_version": "v1.6"
}