# kaal:claim:6269518-005

**Claim.** No static citation protocol can eliminate all arbitrage opportunities for sufficiently patient and powerful actors, a conclusion the author draws from Arrow's Impossibility Theorem, the Folk Theorems of repeated games, and incomplete contract theory.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- actors are sufficiently patient and powerful
- the citation protocol is fixed and published

**Source quote.**

> Arrow's Impossibility Theorem, the Folk Theorems of repeated game theory, and the theory of incomplete contracts all counsel that no static citation protocol can eliminate all arbitrage opportunities for sufficiently patient and powerful actors.6

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance* (2026), I. Introduction, page 5

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6269518

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**Failure mode.** static protocol arbitrage  (family: rule-obsolescence-and-ossification)

**Topics.** dynamic-regulation, regulatory-failure

**Keywords.** static-rules, folk-theorems, incomplete-contracts, dynamic-regulation, gaming

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