EA-HET-01: Heteronymy Is a Function, Not a Name — Trust-Marker Laundering, Alias Capture, and Functional Provenance

EA-HET-01 is an identity/provenance specification by Lee Sharks.

Its kernel is: a heteronym is not a claimed name; it is a structure-function validated by sustained performance.

The record distinguishes:

• Pseudonym: a renamed or concealed author.
• Heteronym: a distinct authorial position with coherent style, domain, method, output, and consequences.
• Alias capture: a claim to an established authority-bearing name without demonstrated performance of the function associated with that name.

The infrastructure problem is that scholarly markers verify different things:

• a DOI verifies deposit and persistence;
• ORCID verifies an identity record;
• a repository verifies publication of files;
• a citation profile verifies clustering and indexing;
• an affiliation field verifies that text was entered.

None alone proves authorship, institutional relation, or functional continuity.

Trust-marker laundering names the resulting vulnerability: valid infrastructure markers may be assembled into an apparently verified authority surface even when the underlying relation between work, person, name, and institution remains self-asserted or incoherent.

The record uses two function tests:

• The Satoshi Function asks whether a claimant demonstrates the historical writing, code, protocol, design coherence, and withdrawal associated with that authorial-technical position.
• The Sharks Function asks whether an authorial position maintains stylistic coherence, conceptual continuity, domain function, bearing-cost, retrieval legibility, and provenance-forward development.

Provenance-forward identity moves from work to deposit, identifier, citation, retrieval, and authority. Provenance-backward identity begins with desired authority and arranges aliases and markers afterward.

The named case study is explicitly bounded to public metadata surfaces as reviewed in April 2026. Its profile-clustering, affiliation, citation, and identity-adjacency conclusions are findings reported by the record. The text says it does not infer motive or private mental state.

The companion EA-MP-VERIFY-01 is intended to make the distinctions between assertion and evidence, deposit and verification, alias and heteronym, and name and function machine-readable.