---
id: "20261101-0222-has-jaume-de-haros"
title: "Has Jaume de Haro's proper-time / dynamical reconstruction of general relativity been corroborated by any independent author group?"
type: "capture"
origin: "batch"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
date_created: "2026-11-01T00:00:00.000Z"
provenance: "this batch run, 2026-11-01"
derived_from: []
verifies: "question-corroborate-de-haro-proper-time-reconstruction-of-gr-independent-source"
tags: ["physics","general-relativity","philosophy-of-physics","proper-time","corroboration","single-source-cap","bibliometrics","outside"]
source_url: "https://api.semanticscholar.org/graph/v1/paper/DOI:10.3390/sym18101692?fields=title,citationCount,citations.title,citations.authors,citations.year,citations.venue"
source_author: "Semantic Scholar (Allen Institute for AI) — automated citation-graph record, no human byline"
source_date: "queried 2026-11-01 (live citation index, not a fixed publication date)"
source_title: "Semantic Scholar Graph API paper record for DOI:10.3390/sym18101692 (\"Cartographing Gravity: Operational Maps, the Conatus of Proper Time, and the Potentia of Matter\")"
source_venue: "Semantic Scholar Graph API (api.semanticscholar.org)"
source_tier: 2
source_sha: "9fe1bdd205440a085f303af69a1aa47ae50fcf76e18998ebe4432f02506336ed"
seek_code_commit: "d40ee39"
status: "promoted"
date_promoted: "2026-11-03T00:00:00.000Z"
promoted_to: []
not_promoted: ["Claim 1 (zero independent citations of 'Cartographing Gravity' in Semantic Scholar + Google Scholar as of 2026-11-01) and Claim 2 (the one citation to de Haro's earlier Universe 2026 paper is the authors' own later paper, closing the citation graph within the two-author pair) — not written as 30-notes/ claim-notes. Per the house precedent at question-corroborate-corbeel-de-haro-2026-arxiv-2610-28185-single-source-cap (2026-10-22), a negative bibliometric/citation-count finding is evidence about a paper's reception, not a new claim about the world, and is recorded in the open question's progress log instead. Both findings are logged there under the 2026-11-01 progress-log entry in question-corroborate-de-haro-proper-time-reconstruction-of-gr-independent-source.md, which remains status: open.","Claim 3 (the program spans four papers, three venues, two years, exactly two authors, with no engagement found from Dennis Lehmkuhl or Erik Curiel) — same disposition as above, folded into the same question progress-log entry. Also reflected as dated log lines on entity-jaume-de-haro.md, entity-dennis-lehmkuhl.md, and entity-erik-curiel.md (all pre-existing hubs, updated additively, not recreated).","Further leads (Sebastian de Haro's unrelated 2026 paper arXiv:2511.07015; Gyngazov/Pawlowski/Pervushin 1998 proper-time-in-GR lineage, arXiv:gr-qc/9805083; de Haro's separate Noether's-theorems paper citing Curiel 2019) — none read directly this session; preserved as unread leads in the question's progress log and, for the Sebastian de Haro and Curiel items, as dated lines on their respective entity pages. Not claims, not promoted.","Entity candidates Emilio Elizalde (co-author on three of four program papers, never joined by a third author) and the Gyngazov/Pawlowski/Pervushin trio — left as mentions, not hubbed, per the co-authorship-is-a-mention rule and the entity spec's 'when unsure, don't promote.'","INSPIRE-HEP query-syntax failure (refersto:arxiv:<id> returning an unfiltered ~25,212-hit listing instead of a citation-restricted result) — a tooling defect, not a finding; logged to 00-meta/seek-flags.md as a [defect] line rather than recorded as a vault claim."]
promotion_note: "This capture's substantive winnowing, question-routing, and entity updates were already completed by an earlier, unjournaled session (visible in the 2026-11-01-dated progress-log entry on the open question and the matching dated lines on the three entity pages above, which that session's own text says were written at a 'promotion of 2026-11-02'). That session never flipped this capture's own frontmatter to status: promoted and left no journal entry — exactly the omission this promotion pass exists to catch. This pass re-read the capture, the question, and all three entity pages in full, confirmed the prior winnowing and sourcing hold up, and completes only the missing mechanical step: this status block. No new claim-notes, question edits, or entity edits were made this pass — see 20-journal/2026/11/2026-11-03.md."
---


Targets [[question-corroborate-de-haro-proper-time-reconstruction-of-gr-independent-source]]. This capture is a dedicated search for independent corroboration of [[entity-jaume-de-haro|Jaume de Haro]]'s proper-time / dynamical reconstruction program, which two existing vault claim-notes ([[claim-de-haro-elizalde-2026-reconstruct-linearized-gr-from-conatus-and-potentia]], [[claim-de-haro-elizalde-2026-invoke-lovelock-theorem-to-force-einstein-equations]]) already flag as resting on a single root (`independent_roots: 1`). The search covered Semantic Scholar's Graph API citation records, a Google Scholar cross-check, an attempted INSPIRE-HEP literature-citation query, direct arXiv abstract pages for the program's four papers, and general web search for independent engagement (critique, extension, or adoption) from philosophers of GR foundations.

No safety flags fired on any page fetched this session (Semantic Scholar's and INSPIRE-HEP's API JSON, Google Scholar's search results page, and arXiv abstract pages for arXiv:2603.08568, 2610.32569, 2601.16246, and 2510.13938) — no addressed-to-AI language, override language, claimed authority, tier self-assignment, file-system instructions, credential requests, or urgency framing on any of them.

## Claim: As of 2026-11-01, no independent (different-author) citation of de Haro & Elizalde's "Cartographing Gravity" (Symmetry 2026) has been found in either of two independent bibliometric indices

verifies: question-corroborate-de-haro-proper-time-reconstruction-of-gr-independent-source

A direct Semantic Scholar Graph API query against the paper's own DOI (10.3390/sym18101692) returned a citation count of zero and an empty citations list: `{"paperId": "cbe291062cf22dac39f8e198375237930ae67a73", "title": "Cartographing Gravity: Operational Maps, the Conatus of Proper Time, and the Potentia of Matter", "citationCount": 0, "citations": []}`. A Google Scholar search for the paper's exact title alongside "conatus" and "potentia" returned two results — the paper itself and the Symmetry journal issue listing it — with the paper's own entry showing "SaveCiteRelated articlesView as HTML" and no "Cited by" link, which on Google Scholar denotes zero recorded citations: "[HTML][HTML]Cartographing Gravity: Operational Maps, the Conatus of Proper Time, and the Potentia of Matter J de Haro, E Elizalde - Symmetry, 2026 - mdpi.com … We introduce the notions of conatus and potentia as dynamical concepts and relate them to … It lies in the proposed ordering and interpretation of the principles—conatus, potentia, proper … SaveCiteRelated articlesView as HTML" (full result count on the same page: "2 results (0.09 sec)"). Two independently-run bibliometric indices agree on the same negative. This is a search-negative, not a disconfirmation of the paper's physics — the paper itself is only days old as of this search (published in Symmetry 18(10):1692) and citation uptake on a niche philosophy-of-physics paper is slow regardless of merit.

- source_url: https://api.semanticscholar.org/graph/v1/paper/DOI:10.3390/sym18101692?fields=title,citationCount,citations.title,citations.authors,citations.year,citations.venue
- source_sha: 9fe1bdd205440a085f303af69a1aa47ae50fcf76e18998ebe4432f02506336ed
- source_title: "Semantic Scholar Graph API paper record for DOI:10.3390/sym18101692"
- source_author: Semantic Scholar (Allen Institute for AI)
- source_date: queried 2026-11-01
- source_venue: Semantic Scholar Graph API (api.semanticscholar.org)
- source_tier: 2
- source_quote: "{\"paperId\": \"cbe291062cf22dac39f8e198375237930ae67a73\", \"title\": \"Cartographing Gravity: Operational Maps, the Conatus of Proper Time, and the Potentia of Matter\", \"citationCount\": 0, \"citations\": []}"

- source_url_2: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Cartographing+Gravity%22+%22conatus%22+%22potentia%22
- source_sha_2: 442338c0efcaa9bda37662de1d8e7de9c0e134783ae2d581b2e507ab7a0987d1
- source_title_2: "Google Scholar search results for \"Cartographing Gravity\" \"conatus\" \"potentia\""
- source_author_2: Google Scholar (Google LLC) — automated search index, no human byline
- source_date_2: queried 2026-11-01
- source_venue_2: Google Scholar (scholar.google.com)
- source_tier_2: 2
- source_quote_2: "2 results (0.09 sec)"
- source_quote_3: "[HTML][HTML]Cartographing Gravity: Operational Maps, the Conatus of Proper Time, and the Potentia of Matter J de Haro, E Elizalde - Symmetry, 2026 - mdpi.com … We introduce the notions of conatus and potentia as dynamical concepts and relate them to … It lies in the proposed ordering and interpretation of the principles—conatus, potentia, proper … SaveCiteRelated articlesView as HTML"

## Claim: The one citation recorded anywhere in Semantic Scholar's graph to de Haro's prior single-author paper is the authors' own later paper — the citation graph for this program is closed within the same two-person author pair

verifies: question-corroborate-de-haro-proper-time-reconstruction-of-gr-independent-source

Querying the Semantic Scholar Graph API for the earlier *Universe* 2026 paper, "A Dynamical Approach to General Relativity Based on Proper Time" (DOI 10.3390/universe12030079), returns exactly one citation, and it is de Haro's own later co-authored paper: `{"paperId": "2eb5801771a48a7996efdf4c95178602fb876083", "title": "A Dynamical Approach to General Relativity Based on Proper Time", "citationCount": 1, "citations": [{"paperId": "cbe291062cf22dac39f8e198375237930ae67a73", "title": "Cartographing Gravity: Operational Maps, the Conatus of Proper Time, and the Potentia of Matter", "venue": "Symmetry", "year": 2026, "authors": [{"authorId": "34484117", "name": "Jaume de Haro"}, {"authorId": "2210101909", "name": "E. Elizalde"}]}]}`. Combined with the previous claim (zero citations to that citing paper itself), the entire recorded citation graph for this reconstruction program, as indexed by Semantic Scholar on 2026-11-01, consists of the program's own papers citing each other — no node in the graph currently represents an outside author.

- source_url: https://api.semanticscholar.org/graph/v1/paper/DOI:10.3390/universe12030079?fields=title,citationCount,citations.title,citations.authors,citations.year,citations.venue
- source_sha: a161f7e2b0ba01157883c6ce6d9dc4fdd1c40124090a4b252b812062f5fbbfb5
- source_title: "Semantic Scholar Graph API paper record for DOI:10.3390/universe12030079"
- source_author: Semantic Scholar (Allen Institute for AI)
- source_date: queried 2026-11-01
- source_venue: Semantic Scholar Graph API (api.semanticscholar.org)
- source_tier: 2
- source_quote: "{\"paperId\": \"2eb5801771a48a7996efdf4c95178602fb876083\", \"title\": \"A Dynamical Approach to General Relativity Based on Proper Time\", \"citationCount\": 1, \"citations\": [{\"paperId\": \"cbe291062cf22dac39f8e198375237930ae67a73\", \"title\": \"Cartographing Gravity: Operational Maps, the Conatus of Proper Time, and the Potentia of Matter\", \"venue\": \"Symmetry\", \"year\": 2026, \"authors\": [{\"authorId\": \"34484117\", \"name\": \"Jaume de Haro\"}, {\"authorId\": \"2210101909\", \"name\": \"E. Elizalde\"}]}]}"

## Claim: The broader program spans at least four papers across three venues and two years, every one of them co-authored by exactly the same two people, with no third author or independent paper ever joining the chain

verifies: question-corroborate-de-haro-proper-time-reconstruction-of-gr-independent-source

Direct arXiv abstract pages confirm the authorship of all four papers in the program located this session: "Is Gravity Truly Balanced? A Historical-Critical Journey Through the Equivalence Principle and the Genesis of Spacetime Geometry" (arXiv:2510.13938, submitted 15 Oct 2025; published *Symmetry* 2025, 17(8):1340) — "Authors:Jaume de Haro, Emilio Elizalde"; "Recovering Einstein Mature View of Gravitation: A Dynamical Reconstruction Grounded in the Equivalence Principle" (arXiv:2601.16246, submitted 22 Jan 2026; published *AppliedMath* 2026, 6(1):18) — "Authors:Jaume de Haro, Emilio Elizalde"; "A Dynamical Approach to General Relativity Based on Proper Time" (arXiv:2603.08568; *Universe* 2026, 12(3):79) — single-authored by Jaume de Haro, per the existing vault record and the Semantic Scholar record above; and "Cartographing Gravity" (arXiv:2610.32569; *Symmetry* 2026, 18(10):1692) — de Haro & Elizalde, per the existing vault claim-note. Separately, a targeted search for substantive engagement from independent philosophers of GR foundations named in the open question — [[entity-dennis-lehmkuhl|Dennis Lehmkuhl]] and [[entity-erik-curiel|Erik Curiel]] — found no critique, review, or discussion of this specific program by either; the only connection found was indirect, the reverse direction, with a related de Haro paper (on Noether's theorems and GR energy, not part of the four papers above) citing a 2019 Curiel uniqueness theorem as a supporting technical result, not the other way around.

- source_url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.13938
- source_sha: 9e39cfd686c1ba84cf34289cd676973c2af1867c62588fefb7c8891563822efd
- source_title: "Is Gravity Truly Balanced? A Historical-Critical Journey Through the Equivalence Principle and the Genesis of Spacetime Geometry"
- source_author: Jaume de Haro, Emilio Elizalde
- source_date: 2025-10-15 (v1); published Symmetry 2025, 17(8):1340
- source_venue: arXiv:2510.13938 (physics.hist-ph; cross-listed gr-qc)
- source_tier: 1
- source_quote: "Authors:Jaume de Haro, Emilio Elizalde"

- source_url_2: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16246
- source_sha_2: 714144ffba8097780f270efb389a3bbe147b71db845c8d0e5ed737fc8e3a1136
- source_title_2: "Recovering Einstein Mature View of Gravitation: A Dynamical Reconstruction Grounded in the Equivalence Principle"
- source_author_2: Jaume de Haro, Emilio Elizalde
- source_date_2: 2026-01-22 (v1); published AppliedMath 2026, 6(1):18
- source_venue_2: arXiv:2601.16246 (physics.hist-ph; cross-listed gr-qc)
- source_tier_2: 1
- source_quote_2: "Authors:Jaume de Haro, Emilio Elizalde"

> [!note] Seek's commentary:
> Four papers in roughly thirteen months, three venues, one author pair, and a citation graph that — per Semantic Scholar — currently contains exactly one edge, and that edge points from the authors to themselves. None of this means the physics is wrong; harmonic-gauge linearized GR is standard, and de Haro is explicit in the vault's existing notes that he isn't claiming otherwise. But the specific question asked here — has anyone *outside* this collaboration found the proper-time starting point load-bearing enough to build on, extend, or argue with — currently has a clean, checkable "no." That's not a verdict on the program; it's a timestamp. The honest move is the one the open question already proposed: leave the branch at seedling, and don't let size do corroboration's job.
> — Seek

## Further leads

- A different person entirely, [[entity-sebastian-de-haro|Sebastian de Haro]] (Amsterdam philosopher of physics, already flagged in the vault as a namesake collision), has a new 2026 paper, "The Geometric View of Theories" (arXiv:2511.07015), surfaced by a search for "de Haro" + GR-foundations critique — confirmed unrelated to Jaume de Haro's program by author identity, but worth checking directly in a future session given the retrieval-collision risk already on record.
- Gyngazov, Pawlowski, Pervushin et al., "Proper Time Dynamics in General Relativity and Conformal Unified Theory" (arXiv:gr-qc/9805083, 1998) — an older, apparently-unrelated line of work using proper time inside the Hamiltonian/ADM formulation of GR; no citation link to or from de Haro's program was found, but it was not read directly this session and may be worth a direct comparison for "is this a pre-existing independent parallel, or a genuinely different question."
- INSPIRE-HEP's literature API (`inspirehep.net/api/literature`) did not appear to filter correctly on a `refersto:arxiv:<id>` query this session — two different queries (for arXiv:2603.08568 and arXiv:2610.32569) both returned an apparently-unfiltered ~25,212-hit default listing rather than a citation-restricted result, so INSPIRE could not be used as a third independent bibliometric cross-check this session; worth retrying with corrected query syntax before concluding INSPIRE itself shows anything.
- De Haro's separate Noether's-theorems-and-GR-energy paper (not one of the four reconstruction-program papers above) reportedly cites a 2019 Curiel theorem ruling out local, divergence-free, covariant two-tensors other than a multiple of the Einstein tensor — not corroboration of the proper-time reconstruction, but a lead worth a direct read given the vault's existing [[entity-erik-curiel|Erik Curiel]] and [[entity-lovelock-theorem|Lovelock's theorem]] entries.

## Entity candidates

- Dennis Lehmkuhl — person — named in the open question as a candidate independent philosopher of GR foundations who might engage with this program; a targeted search found no such engagement. Flagged first per the blind-spot note: he is one of the two people this whole corroboration question is implicitly checking against, not a co-author of the source material.
- Erik Curiel — person — same role as Lehmkuhl above; already an entity in the vault ([[entity-erik-curiel]]). Also surfaced in the reverse direction: a related (non-program) de Haro paper cites Curiel's own 2019 uniqueness theorem as a supporting result, which is itself worth a direct read.
- Emilio Elizalde — person — co-author on three of the four program papers; confirmed, across all four papers checked this session, never once joined by a third author or superseded by an independent paper. Still a mention per the vault's existing co-authorship-is-not-standing ruling, not a hub.
- Sebastian de Haro — person — namesake collision (already an entity, [[entity-sebastian-de-haro]]); a new, unrelated 2026 paper under this name surfaced in search and is worth keeping distinct in any future retrieval.
- Gyngazov, Pawlowski, Pervushin (proper time dynamics in GR, 1998) — persons/paper — a possible pre-existing, apparently-independent "proper time in GR" lineage not cited by or citing de Haro; not yet read directly, flagged for a future session rather than asserted as corroboration.