Induced gravity on the prism
Gravity is induced, not fundamental. By Sakharov's mechanism the bond-oscillator scalar on the prism \(Q_4=Q_3\times I\) is integrated out at the Planck mass, and its vacuum fluctuations generate the Einstein–Hilbert term. The scalar Sakharov coefficient reduces through the proper-time integral to a finite spectral sum over the prism modes,
\[ \frac{1}{16\pi G_N}=\frac{1}{12}\,\frac{1}{V}\sum_{n}\frac{1}{\lambda_n+m^{2}}, \qquad V=16,\ m=m_P. \]
The vertex operator and its trace
The scalar operator is the vertex Laplacian with a unit mass shift, \(M_0=L_0+I\). As a Cartesian product of four single edges the spectrum of \(L_0\) is \(\{0,2,4,6,8\}\) with multiplicities \((1,4,6,4,1)\). Before the disentangler this closes the bare value
\[ \Sigma_V^{\text{bare}}=\sum_n\frac{1}{\lambda_n+1}=4.21587,\qquad G_N^{\text{bare}}=0.906033\,\ell_P^{2}. \]
The disentangler curves the prism
The in-plane disentangler curves the prism through the edge weights set by the residual capacity,
\[ \omega_k=1+\tfrac{5}{\sqrt2}\,\xi^{*}\,\bigl(D_{xy}^{(Q_4)}\mathbf 1\bigr)_k, \qquad \tfrac{5}{\sqrt2}\,\xi^{*}=0.098209, \]
the closed star of an isometric edge (five edges), carried at \(\xi^{*}\) per bond. The weights are conductances, inverse to length, and the disentanglers deliver the star's strength through the face diagonals of length \(\sqrt2\), so the count enters the weight per unit diagonal, \(c_D=\tfrac{5}{\sqrt2}\,\xi^{*}\). The row sum is 4 on each in-plane edge and 0 on the \(z\) and temporal edges, so \(\omega_k=1.3928\) in-plane and \(\omega_k=1\) along \(z\) and \(\tau\). The weighted trace lowers to \(\Sigma_V=3.82333\), closing the constant,
The same deformed trace \(\Sigma_V=3.82333\) is the denominator of the Higgs spectral weight, tying the vacuum expectation value to gravity.