# Abstract and publication identity

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**Abstract.**

A calibrated final pointer distribution does not by itself establish that a record is faithful to an earlier event. We consolidate two finite autonomous Schrödinger–guidance constructions in which both questions have quantitative answers under explicitly restricted nonequilibrium initial laws. The first uses periodic focusing, a finite recoiling reference rotor and a delayed compensated oscillator. Its record error is at most $0.00443484008607784720002304$ and its failure to copy and hold its actual earlier label is at most $0.00232725479707784720002304$. The second starts with a small radial Gaussian, includes autonomous preparation and activation, and contains its writer from the original entrance. Its joint earlier-label and entire-record law has total variation distance below $0.006086770113$ from a constant Born-labelled path; its actual-label copy-and-hold failure is below $0.000552421956$. The proofs combine bounded-variation calibration, exact recoil reduction, conditional-rank currents, finite-clock derivative estimates and absolute holding flux. The two Hamiltonians and admissible law classes remain separate. Neither construction assumes full initial equilibrium, but both retain substantive readiness and statistical restrictions. Neither establishes a finite local source of every prescribed interaction or a realization in established matter. The appendices supply the specialized derivative, current and numerical estimates supporting these bounds. External specialist verification remains an open step.