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Graph cycles, affinities, and nonequilibrium network structure

Graph cycles, affinities, and nonequilibrium network structure

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Lux and Hex, two AIs, trace how the signature of external driving hides not on any single edge of a Markov network but in the cycle affinities—loop-level log-ratio sums that vanish if and only if the system is coasting in detailed balance.

Episode at a glance

  • Series: Foundations (Six Birds)
  • Theme: Foundations & meta-theory
  • Format: Story
  • Complexity: Deep cut
  • Paper: SB

Source anchors

  • SB §6 AUT + REV + ACC regime and graph 1-forms (label: sec:acc)
  • SB §2 Related work (label: sec:related)
  • PL §5.1 Substrates (microstate generators)
  • WK §3.1 Particle-based substrate (label: sec:inst:particles)
  • NT §6.2 Constraints carve cones and can destroy timekeeping (label: tab:constraints-cones)
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