Sealed or Leaky Publication
Overview and publication identity
JEREMY RODGERS
Sealed or Leaky
The Source Tetralemma,
Bell-Certified Hidden Information,
and Finite-Resource Witnesses
Conditional mathematical results
and published-data translation
Independent Researcher
Website: everythingequation.com
Version 3.1 — preprint edition
Mathematical revision: 21 September 2026
Publication preparation: 1 October 2026
Status: Conditional mathematical results; published-data translation.
For a specified classical initial readout , single outcomes, source-level outcome determinism, setting independence and no-signalling conditional on imply that a CHSH violation excludes source completeness. The finite source response variable obeys the sharp bounds and for . The stated determinism premise already supplies single outcomes, so branching is outside that formalism, not a countermodel violating only single outcomes. Within the single-outcome class, determinism, measurement independence and conditional no-signalling are separately indispensable. A checkable translation of Bierhorst et al.'s Data Set 5 retains their classical, pre-existing, isolated-side-information adversary class and the passing-probability hypothesis. It yields more than conditional Shannon bits from the extracted string, but only unsmoothed min-entropy bits from its uniformity error alone. Their published entropy-production parameters give the stronger lower bound bits for conditional Shannon entropy and explicitly defined deletion-smoothed min-entropy of the run response; the corresponding unsmoothed bound is bits. These are ensemble statements conditional on passing, not min-entropy claims about an unrestricted complete source. The retained preparation, sealing, simulation, conservation and finite-resource results remain separately assumption-tagged. No theorem establishes that every description of observers is a readout, and unrestricted operational surrogates remain an empirical identification ceiling.