This is the fourth paper in the
series and introduces the broader framework as Flexible Static Cosmology (FLSC). The framework was first introduced as the operational redshift kernel
, which reproduced the classical background redshift relations within a flexible static ontology and preserved a Planck spectrum exactly under collisionless transport. This paper supplies the local gravitational closure in ordinary general relativity. Under the stated bulk hypotheses, compatibility between the
transport law, null-geodesic photon propagation, and covariant number conservation forces geodesic, shear-free deformation. The spatial metric factorizes as
, with
, and the spatial Einstein equations require constant sectional curvature. Robertson-Walker geometry is therefore derived step by step rather than assumed. The same deformation rate gives
,
,
, and
.
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