Galois-Orbit Structure, Ramanujan Sums, and Stable-Range Collapse for Cyclotomic Cosine Formulas

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We study cyclotomic cosine evaluations beyond the fully symmetric setting by combining Galois-orbit structure with finite-frequency expansions. First, for truncation-compatible poly?nomial families over Q, we distinguish invariance of the evaluated value from invariance of the polynomial formula. Summability by a rational function of the level forces eventual rationality of the evaluated values. Conversely, every rational-valued sequence can be realized by a compatible family whose total degree is uniformly bounded by two, showing that value-level Galois invariance alone carries essentially no stable-range rigidity. We then introduce explicit orbit-structured pattern sums indexed by multiplicative configurations. For every fixed pattern, at each sufficiently large admissible level n, its cyclotomic cosine evaluation collapses to an affine function n times S0(r,h) minus 2 to the abs(h) power, where S0 is the zero-frequency coefficient of the associated Laurent polynomial. Consequently, every family uniformly generated from finitely many such patterns by a single polynomial recipe has eventually polynomial evaluation. Finally, decomposing the punctured index set into gcd-orbits yields an exact orbitwise formula in terms of Ramanujan sums. The semiprime and prime-power cases become transparent specializations of this general identity. These results identify both the obstruction to extending symmetric rigidity from value-level Galois invariance and a concrete non-symmetric class exhibiting uniform stable-range collapse