Authority conservation as agent populations replace, fork, and roll back software.
Research status: arXiv preprint; also listed on SSRN. SSRN record date: 2026-10-04.
Authors: Genliang Zhu, Chu Wang. arXiv first submitted: 2026-09-29.
Research question
What happens to authority when an agent replaces itself, forks, or rolls back?
A software lifecycle transition should not silently create additional authority. This topic concerns conserving authorization across changes in an agent population rather than treating new process identities as fresh grants.
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