Nuclear Binding — Overlapping Cuboctahedral Cages

Boundary Closure (Axiom 4)

p-n: 1⊕0=1 → shared boundary ✓

p-p: 1⊕1=0 → boundary dissolves ✗

n-n: 0⊕0=0 → boundary dissolves ✗

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Proton centre (p=1)

Neutron centre (p=0)

Proton cuboctahedral cage

Neutron cuboctahedral cage

Shared boundary (p-n, binding)

Shared boundary (p-p/n-n, none)

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p-n bonds

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shared faces

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binding fraction

²H

nucleus

Nuclear Binding — Overlapping Cuboctahedral Cages (FCC Max-Cut Deduplication)