{"id":"anti-entropy-detects-but-cannot-fully-resolve-divergence","text":"Anti-entropy can precisely locate divergent key ranges via Merkle tree diffs but cannot fully reconcile them: tombstone semantics differ at every layer (empty-bytes sentinel in LSM, preserved-by-default in merge, replication-convergence-dependent in distributed), preventing consistent cross-replica resolution of deleted keys.","truth_value":"IN","source":"","source_url":"","source_hash":"","justifications":[],"dependents":[],"metadata":{},"explanation":{"steps":[{"node":"anti-entropy-detects-but-cannot-fully-resolve-divergence","truth_value":"IN","reason":"premise"}]}}