The Single-Owner Discount: Provenance Concentration and Epistemic Class Reproduction in Generative Search

"The Single-Owner Discount" is a 5,921-word provenance document by Lee Sharks, dated 2026-05-19. Generative search systems — Google's AI Overviews, AI Mode, and equivalent systems — operate through a stratified pipeline in which document retrieval and answer composition are governed by separable mechanisms. A document may be indexed, retrievable, and snippet-eligible while remaining systematically excluded from generative composition. The work is classified under the STRUCTURAL semantic family within the Crimson Hexagonal Archive. It was removed from Zenodo on June 19, 2026 and is preserved through Alexanarch.