research: finalize pilot v1 preprint manuscript

[ErenAri]

Summary

Add a submission-ready pilot-v1 preprint package outside the frozen
research/** archive payload.

Added

• docs/paper/PREPRINT-v1.md
  • full manuscript structure from abstract through conclusion;
  • RQ1–RQ4 results bound to frozen generated analysis;
  • explicit calibration/non-calibration separation;
  • exact Oracle environment-mismatch handling;
  • bounded interpretation of the Cilium loader comparison;
  • cross-vendor version inversion examples;
  • repeat-run stability section;
  • threats to validity;
  • DOI/release reproducibility section;
  • related work and references.
• docs/paper/references.bib
  • bibliography entries for eBPF/XDP, verifier work, BTF/CO-RE, kernel
    backport/stable documentation, loader projects, and the exact Zenodo
    dataset.
• docs/paper/SUBMISSION.md
  • final preprint checklist;
  • frozen identifiers;
  • external-submission gates;
  • suggested operating-systems classification;
  • post-preprint publication steps.

Evidence boundary

The manuscript uses only frozen pilot-v1 numbers for empirical claims:

• 70/70 canonical executions;
• 50 compatible, 13 incompatible, 7 inconclusive overall;
• 60 non-calibration attempts: 50 compatible, 4 incompatible, 6 inconclusive;
• ring-buffer threshold agreement 8/9 conclusive observations;
• 2 cross-vendor version inversions;
• 0 paired Cilium verdict disagreements across 9 conclusive exact
  environments, with non-comparable contracts stated explicitly;
• 21/21 stable repeat observations, 0 environment drift, 0 verdict
  instability.

The manuscript explicitly avoids population-wide, causal-loader, peer-review,
or institutional-endorsement claims.

Frozen-v1 boundary

This PR changes only docs/paper/**.

It does not modify:

• research/**;
• root CITATION.cff;
• research-v1 tag/release;
• archive lock or release assets;
• Zenodo dataset files.

The exact dataset citation remains
10.5281/zenodo.22848155.

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• docs/paper/PREPRINT-v1.md
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