Verification Pulses and the Cost of Escaping Wrong Consensus

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arXiv:2610.00256v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: External verification can correct individual outputs while leaving a self-reinforcing population in the basin of a wrong consensus. We study how the timing and addressing of a fixed verification budget affect recovery in an asynchronous binary register. For a general nonlinear response, we derive the minimum fuel required to cross a basin boundary under a peak verification constraint. For a finite population, an exact birth--death calculation gives