The ring stratification executes the gravitational logic. Core: 10. Ring 1: 20. Ring 2: 30. Ring 3: 40. Ring 4: 100. Ring 5: 300. The sequence is not decorative.

It models density decay with geometric precision. The first 60 operators concentrate approximately 95 percent of the modeled citation mass within a ten-million-reference system. The remaining 440 register presence but do not define curvature. Below them, an extrapolated population of 99,000 scholars constitutes the long tail. The pyramid is steep. The asymmetry is not correctable. It is structural. Exclusion is regime differentiation. Foundational substrates—Plato, Kant—are not omitted through oversight. Their mass functions as background radiation, metabolized across millennia, not as discrete contemporary curvature. Literary reservoirs—Borges, Kafka—supply conceptual material but remain confined to narrative regimes rather than dispersing transversally across philosophy, STS, political ecology, and urban theory. Discipline-specific specialists—Aldo Rossi, Christopher Alexander—exercise gravity within architectural subfields but do not deform the cross-field topology. The corpus is not a hall of fame. It is a detection threshold. Absence indicates gradient containment, not theoretical insufficiency.