Finite-Spectral Bare Stiffness and Boundary-Center Response in AQM: Conditional Derivation of the Fine-Structure Constant

This paper gives a conditional AQM derivation framework for the low-energy fine-structure constant. It does not claim that the Standard-Model renormalization group alone explains the number, nor does it identify the finite-spectral bare stiffness with a conventional grand-unified Jun Chen / Chen Jun 2026 Conditional Derivation of the Fine-Structure Constant coupling. The derivation is organized by α −1 (0) = αK −1 + ∆std + ∆AQM surf , where αK −1 is the finite K-spectral bare stiffness, ∆std is