Effective Persistence Regimes in Maintenance-Dominated Systems: A Cross-Domain Diagnostic Framework

This archive contains the v1. 0 manuscript of: “Effective Persistence Regimes in Maintenance-Dominated Systems: A Cross-Domain Diagnostic Framework” The paper introduces a substrate-independent operational framework for analyzing how long-lived systems allocate resources between productive expansion and continuity preservation under rising stabilization burden. The framework defines three persistence regimes: Expansion-Dominated Regime (EDR) Maintenance-Dominated Regime (MDR) Terminal Persistence Regime (TPR) and introduces a comparative diagnostic architecture based on: Maintenance Ratio (MRMRMR) Adaptive Margin (AMAMAM) Repair-to-Build Ratio (RBRBRB) Technical Debt (DTDTDT) Coordination Load (CLCLCL) Coupling Density (CDCDCD) The manuscript examines observable maintenance-dominated behavior across multiple substrates, including: physical infrastructure, software ecosystems, biological repair systems, and institutional coordination systems. The work does not propose a universal law of collapse or deterministic prediction model. Instead, it presents an operational diagnostic methodology for evaluating how stabilization burden evolves under long-duration persistence. The archive includes: complete LaTeX manuscript, bibliography, appendices, regime definitions, variable definitions, and diagnostic framework structure.