Thermochemically consistent realization of a stochastic autocatalytic exporter: chemical completion, inherited operating certificates, cycle affinities and a necessary initiation scale
Abstract
A quantitative stochastic reaction model is physically informative only if its chemical completion preserves the propensities and the meaning of its output and resource counters. We exhibit such a completion for a maintained autocatalytic exporter whose finite-time operating, output and supply guarantees were proved in a companion paper as statements about a twenty-channel labelled count process. Six reversible chemical pairs on eight species admit positive elemental compositions and a single standard-potential assignment throughout a two-parameter rectangle of paired release and cleavage speeds; at unit fuel and waste activities their mass-action count propensities, stoichiometric updates, export marks and service marks coincide label by label with the certified source. Consequently every inherited estimate transfers without a change of constants: outward interval evaluation of the proved error budget gives success probabilities of at least , and for one hundred observation windows at copy scales , and , while deleting only the templated ligation pair, with every other chemical specification retained, bounds the probability of the same output schedule below at the first scale. We then extract three consequences of the completed chemistry. The internal stoichiometric cycles are exactly a passive cycle of zero affinity and one emergent fuel-to-waste cycle of affinity ; local detailed balance holds for the count propensities at neighbouring states with the falling-factorial convention; and, because the preparation contains food only, the first template can arise only through two channels, which yields the necessary initiation bound for any operating guarantee with failure probability at most , about at . Dimensional examples make the eight-hour startup allowance, the gross chemical service and the mixed-species character of the exported product explicit, and a conditional stock-sizing relation delimits the remaining extension to autonomous finite reservoirs. The algebraic and finite marked-kernel statements are verified in Lean 4; the identification with a nonexplosive count process and the initiation argument are conventional proofs, and every printed decimal is an interval-certified evaluation of a proved bound rather than a simulation.