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The Gauge Freedom Journal editorial board brings together researchers in gauge theory, quantum information and computing, plasma physics and nuclear fusion, - [For Authors](https://www.gaugefreedom.org/authors/): We offer swift, double-blind peer reviews combining expert insight and AI assistance to ensure open, verifiable, and impactful academic publishing. - [Editorial Policies](https://www.gaugefreedom.org/policies/): Open Materials Policy Acceptance requires public posting of source LaTeX, figures, and reproducible code/data (or justified exceptions) at a persistent location with version pins and a human-readable README. Technical Preservation Policy AI Participation Policy We explicitly support transparent human+AI collaboration in research. . AI tools are welcome as co-workers. 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Double-blind review: manuscripts are anonymized Structured rubric to guide your assessment AI Co-Editor report provided as advisory input: You'll receive a preliminary report generated by our AI system that checks for methodological consistency, - [Technical Preservation Policy](https://www.gaugefreedom.org/technical-preservation-policy/): Explore the Gauge Freedom Journal's Preservation & Permanence Policy In the digital age, permanence is a profound challenge. Scientific knowledge is fragile, often locked behind paywalls or hosted on servers that can disappear. As the tide of AI-generated information rises, establishing a stable, verifiable "ground truth" has become one of the most critical tasks for - [Articles](https://www.gaugefreedom.org/articles/): Published Articles from our Human + AI peer-review workflow. - [Register](https://www.gaugefreedom.org/register/) - [Submit Review](https://www.gaugefreedom.org/submit-review/) - [Dashboard](https://www.gaugefreedom.org/dashboard/) - [Submit Manuscript](https://www.gaugefreedom.org/submit-manuscript/) ## Articles - [The Kerr-Newman Electron as a Black-White Hole: Proper Time, Projective Geometry, and Trefoil String--Quark Structure](https://www.gaugefreedom.org/article/v1-i2-007-kerr-newman-electron-black-white-hole/): The point electron of quantum theory, which produces Planck-scale gravity as the weakest interaction, is replaced by a super-rotating black-white hole (BWH) electron, which is based on strong Kerr-Newman (KN) Compton-scale gravity interacting with a strong electromagnetic field. Considering the BWH electron as a particle propagating along the world line x_μ(τ), parameterized by the proper time τ according to the Fock–Schwinger interpretation, we show its complete consistency with QED, as well as the following new features: (i) BWH forms an Einstein–Rosen bridge, concentrated near the region of zero proper time, with the black part of proper time τ < 0 corresponding to the positron, and the white part τ > 0 to the electron; (ii) BWH does not contradict QED by producing the anomalous magnetic moment predicted by Schwinger in 1948; (iii) BWH acquires a ring string structure formed by two Wilson loops surrounding the electron's vacuum core; (iv) BWH creates a third ring string which turns it into a string quark with fractional electric charges, and finally Abrikosov type II superconductivity turns the BWH electron into a single trefoil. - [A Preliminary Embedding-Space Probe of Structured Prompt Responses Motivated by AI Space](https://www.gaugefreedom.org/article/v1-i1-005-ai-space-technical-note/): Preliminary AI Space Technical Note on structured prompt responses, sentence embeddings, PCA projections, and bounded reproducibility. - [Defect-Bound Modes of the Naive Dirac Operator on the FCC Lattice: Spectral Multiplet Structure at Tetrahedral and Octahedral Voids](https://www.gaugefreedom.org/article/v1-i1-006-defect-bound-modes-fcc-lattice/): GFJ Article 006 studies FCC Dirac defect-bound modes at tetrahedral and octahedral voids and their symmetry multiplets. - [An Approximate Solution to the Minimum Vertex Cover Problem: The Hvala Algorithm](https://www.gaugefreedom.org/article/v1-i1-004-the-hvala-algorithm/): Hvala is a linear-time ensemble algorithm for Minimum Vertex Cover with a proven 2-approximation bound and public Python implementation. - [Painlevé III-D6, Wild Character Varieties, and the Isomonodromic Cosine: Toward a de Branges Positivity Construction](https://www.gaugefreedom.org/article/v1-i1-003-painleve-iii-d6-isomonodromic-cosine/): Michel Planat constructs an isomonodromic cosine with zeros on the critical line and falsifies a direct bridge to the Riemann zeta function. - [The SERD Framework: Formalization, Restricted Kernels, and Frozen-Regime Observer Recovery](https://www.gaugefreedom.org/article/v1-i1-002-the-serd-framework/): Explore the SERD framework: a discrete, background-free relational model where observer-relative distance is reconstructed from internal information flow. - [Gauge Freedom Journal: Proof x Presence for Human--AI Science](https://www.gaugefreedom.org/article/v1-i1-editorial-proof-presence-hais/): Science is entering an era in which Human--AI collaboration is not an exception but a default mode of work. This change is already producing legitimate novelty, including peer-reviewed work where AI-assisted exploration contributed to key steps later subjected to independent verification. However, it also brings a new class of failure modes: opaque AI influence, fragile reasoning masked by fluent prose, and a growing difficulty in distinguishing rigorous advances from plausible artifacts. Gauge Freedom Journal (GFJ) launches to help establish a new norm: provenance-first, open, energy-aware physics publishing. We encourage a dual-layer disclosure standard for AI-assisted research: AI Integrity Reports as concise human-readable summaries and Content-Addressable Receipts (CARs) as machine-verifiable audit trails. We invite the builders of this new era—independent researchers, interdisciplinary teams, and early adopters of agentic science—to join us. Our aim is simple: as AI accelerates discovery, the scientific method must become more visible, not less. ## Article Types - [Research Article](https://www.gaugefreedom.org/manuscript_type/research/) - [Short Communication](https://www.gaugefreedom.org/manuscript_type/short/) - [Editorial](https://www.gaugefreedom.org/manuscript_type/editorial/) ## Workflow Stages - [Revision Required](https://www.gaugefreedom.org/manuscript_stage/revision/) - [Rejected](https://www.gaugefreedom.org/manuscript_stage/rejected/) - [Published](https://www.gaugefreedom.org/manuscript_stage/published/) ## Volumes & Issues - [Volume 1 (2026)](https://www.gaugefreedom.org/issue/volume_1/) - [Issue 1](https://www.gaugefreedom.org/issue/issue_1/) - [Issue 2](https://www.gaugefreedom.org/issue/issue-2/)