Classification of some cohomologically $C^0$-stable continuous group actions on metric spaces
arXiv:2607.11171
2026
Dynamics
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What the math gives to ML
The paper gives a sharp uniform-norm classification: for a homeomorphism f of a compact metric space, the coboundary range B(f) = {u composed with f minus u} is closed in C0 if and only if f has finite order; for finitely generated group actions, the analogous property holds if and only if the action image is finite. The transferable mechanism is a range-closure or spectral-gap diagnostic for learned state-transition operators. In a recurrent or world-model network, this can detect whether latent dynamics have an increasingly ill-conditioned temporal-difference operator, and can trigger contraction, periodicization, or a change in training regime.
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2026
Treat the learned latent transition F_theta as a homeomorphism-like operator and monitor the range of its temporal-difference operator D_theta u = u composed with F_theta minus u. If the smallest nontrivial singular values of the sampled operator collapse toward zero as trajectory length or basis size grows, the latent dynamics are entering an ill-conditioned coboundary regime. Use this signal to reduce the recurrent step size, impose contraction, or replace the transition by a periodicized…
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