# Retroactive audit

`kaal:entity:retroactive-audit`

**Status.** derived

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## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 1 works, 2026 to 2026.

**2026**

- [6269518-021](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6269518-021) [condition/argued] -- Retroactive citation penalties deter under-citation only if the penalty parameter is set high enough that the expected gain from under-citation is less than the probability of detection multiplied by the penalty magnitude.
  > where the penalty parameter is set sufficiently high (e.g., 0.5) that the expected value of under-citing is negative: the expected gain from under-citation must be less than the probability of detection multiplied by the penalty magnitude.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6269518
- [6269518-028](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6269518-028) [mechanism/argued] -- Because a negative reference challenging under-attribution propagates through the graph, exposing one agent's uncited reliance devalues later posts that cited that agent, so revaluation cascades through the WDAG as the framework intends.
  > The chain of references can propagate: if agent A's uncited reliance on agent B's work is exposed, and agent C's later work cited agent A's contribution, the revaluation cascades through the WDAG precisely as the framework intends.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6269518

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