Sharp spectral-scale stability for parabolic equations with measure-valued delay

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We study the dependence of parabolic solution operators on a finite signed measure describing the delay law. For a positive self-adjoint generator with compact inverse, a weighted dyadic spectral sum characterizes the norm of the semigroup-integrated memory perturbation. An exact realization identity transfers the matching lower estimate to two positive point delays in a fixed linear equation, using a common smooth, finite-spectral history. For the Dirichlet Laplacian on a nonempty bounded open set, the sharp worst-case modulus on a bounded ball of continuous $L^2$-valued histories is $d\sqrt{\log(e/d)}$, where $d$ is the bounded-Lipschitz distance between the delay measures. This is a rough-history endpoint result: logarithmic spatial regularity of order $\gamma>1/2$ restores resolution-uniform Lipschitz stability in the linear model. The critical order $\gamma=1/2$ retains a square-root double-logarithmic loss. More generally, a reciprocal-square summability criterion over occupied spectral bands gives the exact weighted threshold, including sparse spectra. Consequences include sharp finite-resolution Lipschitz constants, worst-case errors for prescribed midpoint quadrature of the memory measure, and semilinear upper estimates under Hilbert-space-valued local Lipschitz assumptions. The results distinguish sensitivity to the delay law from spatial approximation error and do not preclude uniform approximation of positive-time states on rough history balls.