Admissibility-First Architecture: A PATON Architecture of Relational Continuity Across Scale

Abstract

This paper presents Admissibility-First Architecture, a corpus-level synthesis of the PATON System. Rather than proposing a new physical theory, it establishes a structural architecture for analysing continuity, admissibility, persistence, and relational organisation across scale. The paper consolidates the verified Tier 0–8 architecture, the Pattern Validity Principle (PVP), the Mathematical Continuity Audit, recursive continuity across scale, many→one→many compression and renewed expansion, and associated structural methods into a single coherent framework. The work distinguishes established ideas from original PATON contributions through an explicit literature comparison and source-controlled architecture. It argues that admissibility should be evaluated prior to prediction, optimisation, or explanation, providing a common structural framework applicable across physical, biological, cognitive, engineering, computational, and organisational domains. Admissibility-First Architecture is presented as a research architecture intended to organise existing PATON work and guide future empirical and domain-specific investigation.