Research-alpha release plan — completed for 0.3.0a4#

This page records the completed research-alpha milestones. Current work toward 0.3.0 is tracked separately in Plan for the first stable release. Beta 0.3.0b5 includes that later engineering work; its publication record is in Release record and checklist.

Work proceeds in this order. A completed implementation is distinct from independent scientific review and from publication.

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    A[1. Equal-mass coverage: implemented and tested]
    B[2. Local audit and review corrections complete]
    C[3. Capabilities and guarantees: documented]
    D[4. Hosted CI and TestPyPI rehearsal passed]
    E[5. Research alpha published: installation verified]
    A --> B --> C --> D --> E
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    class A,B,C,D,E ready

Order

Objective

Completion criteria

Status

1

Close the equal-mass Euclidean gap

Derived convergent series, documented normalization and tail bound; vacuum, quadrature and overlap checks; bounded work

Implemented; validation recorded below

2

Audit the numerical backend

Reproducible benchmark grid, independent references, actual versus reported errors, boundary and budget failures, review packet

Local audit passed; supplementary review corrections complete; human peer review welcome

3

Make capabilities explicit

One capability table; distinguish RMT, analytic continuation and numerical integration; describe all error guarantees

Implemented

4

Gate publication on validation

Release-commit tests, wheel and source-distribution checks outside checkout, platform smoke tests, TestPyPI rehearsal workflow

Final candidate passed hosted validation, TestPyPI rehearsal and production upload/install

5

Prepare the public research alpha

Runnable notebook, versioned release notes, citation/contribution instructions and release checklist

0.3.0a4 published to PyPI; fresh installation and artifact hashes verified

The supplementary review and all six corrections are recorded in Scientific review packet; no human peer review is claimed. Version 0.3.0a3 restored TestPyPI availability. Version 0.3.0a4 was published on 2026-10-24 after the corrected candidate passed its TestPyPI rehearsal and production workflow. The completed checklist and artifact evidence are in Release record and checklist. Version 0.3.0a5 subsequently corrected the author metadata and documentation. It changes no numerical algorithms and passed the same release checks, including TestPyPI and production installation. Its verification records are in Release record and checklist.

Scope#

The first release targets a credible, reproducible research tool. General topology-specific convergence selection, epsilon expansions, overlapping subtractions, massless integrals and physical-region continuation remain later research objectives.

Historical implementation evidence#

The entries below describe earlier milestones; the completed release status is above.

  • Initial state: graph-derived RMT sunset charts require momentum dominance or mass dominance. Equal-mass vacuum is explicitly refused.

  • The initial release workflow built and published without a validation dependency; CI ran only on Linux.

  • Objective 1: added a separately named equal-mass Taylor backend. Its transformed parameter-integral series converges for every finite Euclidean momentum, subject to work budgets. It is not presented as a new RMT family. The derivation includes a tail bound and the recurrence’s precision hazard.

  • Objective 1: all 15 dedicated tests passed, including independent parameter quadrature and overlap with the generated RMT series.

  • Objective 2: the fixed-seed audit passed all cases after resolving an inadequate-reference-precision finding. Source hashes and individual results are in benchmarks/data/sunset_audit.json. The subsequent review and corrections are recorded in the review packet.

  • Objective 3: the capability table describes each method, accepted domain and error contract, including the unequal-mass gap.

  • Objective 4: publication now depends on a reusable validation workflow: tests, audit, documentation and isolated wheel/sdist checks on Linux, Windows and macOS. A manual-only TestPyPI rehearsal workflow is prepared.

  • Full local regression suite: 440 tests passed, including the slow quadrature checks; one existing SciPy reference-quadrature roundoff warning was emitted.

  • Final local checks: 19 doctests, all six research-notebook code cells, all 67 documentation examples, a warning-free Sphinx build with the rendered plan chart, actionlint and strict distribution metadata checks passed.

  • The 0.3.0a1 wheel and source distribution installed successfully into fresh environments outside the checkout. Both numerical series APIs passed with SciPy unavailable. The source archive contains the reproduction material.

  • The initial candidate included a notebook, citation metadata, contribution guide and draft release notes. Review and publication were still pending at that milestone; their completion is recorded above.

  • Hosted validation for candidate b224380 passed: tests, audit and six platform/artifact combinations and full documentation/gallery checks. Subsequent changes must pass CI again; current results are tracked in merged PR #3 and the main-branch workflow runs.

  • Candidate 3b00bd6 passed the TestPyPI rehearsal: validation, trusted-publisher upload and fresh installation from the index. Published wheel/source hashes matched the validated artifacts. Later changes require another frozen candidate and an unused version for a repeat upload.