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Residual Trust After Verification: A Microeconomic Account of What Proofs Cannot Eliminate

Year: 2026

Type: preprint

Abstract: This paper formalizes residual trust as dependence remaining after verification. It supplies vocabulary (verification surface, residual surface,residual-surface disclosure, trust transfer), maps use cases, compares zero-knowledge proofs with residual trust, presents comparative residual-risk tables,and proposes metrics of verification and residual trust—covering coverage, intensity, residual share r, disclosure completeness, and operationaldetectability—without treating them as calibrated forecasts. Open artefacts are linked for illustration only.Keywords: residual trust; verification metrics; residual surface; zero-knowledge; risk comparison; incomplete contracts.JEL: D23, D82, D86, G30, L14.

Source: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22076720

Author: Angel Jose, Toranzo Portela

Language: English

Topic: Access Control and Trust

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7204074445

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