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2026
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19596549 |
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- <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">Modern networked systems routinely claim voluntary participation based on legal exit options. This paper proves that <strong>legal exit does not equal viable exit</strong>. We introduce the <strong>Exit Coercion Index (ECI)</strong>: a formal measure of functional economic penalty incurred by leaving a system, even when exit is legally permitted.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">ECI = w_Y·ΔY + w_A·ΔA + w_N·ΔN + w_T·T̃_rec, where <strong>ΔY</strong> = income loss, <strong>ΔA</strong> = infrastructure access loss, <strong>ΔN</strong> = network/reputation loss, <strong>T̃_rec</strong> = normalized recovery time. C_viable = (1+ECI)⁻¹ is uniquely determined by axioms E1-E5 (P50, Theorem 12.2). ECI > 0.50 → consent claim <strong>BLOCKED</strong> regardless of legal permission.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">Version 2.1 extends ECI in five directions: <strong>(1)</strong> ECI(t) dynamic + Adiabatic Capture Theorem — consent at t₀ retroactively invalidated when ECI drifts above threshold below perceptual awareness; <strong>(2)</strong> weight governance by 6 product categories; <strong>(3)</strong> Operator Coercion Index (OCI) — distinguishing market-driven from operator-designed ECI; <strong>(4)</strong> five cross-domain DRCs under the ZLT Domain Reduction Lemma; <strong>(5)</strong> first empirical evidence for the proxy-washing mechanism (§10.6, IAS-ZLT-ECI-PWT v1.0, Grade B) — auditors without ECI components produce proxy-washing in 86% of coercive scenarios; auditors with raw components achieve 93% accuracy (cliff ratio 4.5x).</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"><strong>IAS-ECI v2.1:</strong> 14-item audit protocol with 4-tier liability scale — VoCCS (ECI ≤ 0.25: no liability), CCS Conditional (0.25–0.50: disclosure duty), CoCS (0.50–0.75: standard liability), Lock-in Trap (> 0.75: strict liability).</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"><strong>Keywords:</strong> Exit Coercion Index, Viable Consent, Coercion-by-Dependency, Platform Power, Network Effects, Lock-in, Adiabatic Capture, Operator Coercion Index, ECI(t), Dynamic ECI, IAS-ECI, Zero Leap Theory, Manufactured Consent, Digital Infrastructure, Structural Coercion, Proxy-Washing, Audit Validity</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">Part of the Zero Leap Theory (ZLT) series. Related papers: P1 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18264279), P8 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18277419), P11 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18637963), P45 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18634977), P50 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18904951), P65 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18687440), P65A (doi:10.5281/zenodo.19505974), P80 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.19054584), P81B (doi:10.5281/zenodo.19069731), P82 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.19238828), P18 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18512869), P42 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18303481).</p>