Hamiltonian group actions in cosymplectic geometry
arXiv:2607.05231
2026
Architecture
1 ideas extracted · analyzed Aug 30, 2026
What the math gives to ML
The paper supplies a concrete odd-dimensional geometric decomposition: a closed transverse 1-form \(\alpha\), a leafwise symplectic 2-form \(\beta\), and a canonical Reeb direction separated by \(\iota_R\alpha=1\) and \(\iota_R\beta=0\). Its most transferable asset is the symplectic thickening \(M\times\mathbb{S}^1\), which turns a state with one distinguished progression coordinate into an ordinary symplectic state while retaining explicit control of the transverse direction. This suggests a neural layer that splits hidden states into a leaf state and a phase/time coordinate, applies Hamiltonian updates only on the leaf, and uses a separately parameterized Reeb drift. The idea is most promising for sequential dynamics and world models, where one coordinate represents physical time, diffusion time, depth, or another ordered progression variable.
Ideas from this paper
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2026
Replace an unconstrained latent transition by a layer with a distinguished scalar coordinate \(t\) and a symplectic leaf state \(x=(q,p)\). The layer advances \(t\) through a Reeb drift while updating \(x\) with a symplectic Hamiltonian step, preventing arbitrary mixing between progression and content coordinates and potentially improving long-horizon stability.
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