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  "abstract": "This disclosure addresses the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap problem on R4. We\n\ndemonstrate that non-abelian gauge theory exhibits a strictly positive mass gap Δ > 0 as a\n\ndirect topological consequence of embedding gauge fields into the five-dimensional informationmetric\n\nvacuum manifold M5 of the Cosmic Awareness Theory of Liquid Spacetime (CATLS)\n\nframework. We prove that vacuum fluctuations are constrained by the quantum-geometric\n\nsaturation suture constant Ceff, preventing zero-mass massless excitations and generating a\n\ndiscrete lower bound for the energy spectrum.",
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  "title": "Topological Resolution of the Yang-Mills Mass Gap Problem: Quantum-Geometric Mass Generation via 5D Information-Metric Manifolds",
  "title_text": "Topological Resolution of the Yang-Mills Mass Gap Problem: Quantum-Geometric Mass Generation via 5D Information-Metric Manifolds",
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