Topology and dynamics of unimodular random hyperbolic manifolds

arXiv:2607.25065 2026 Dynamics 1 ideas extracted · analyzed Aug 31, 2026

What the math gives to ML

The paper gives a constructive equivalence between transience of a hyperbolic manifold and transience of a Delaunay graph equipped with distance-weighted random-walk transitions. Its transferable mechanism is capacity-preserving discretization: a continuous geometric diffusion problem can be diagnosed on a sparse weighted graph using an energy minimization. For neural networks, this suggests geometry-aware message passing together with a capacity-based diagnostic or regularizer for detecting whether deep propagation escapes to distant nodes or becomes recurrent and locally trapped. The key falsifiable signature is a relation between weighted shell capacity, long-range influence, and oversmoothing as propagation depth increases.

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Capacity-Preserving Transient Message Passing

Replace ordinary graph convolution with a Markov diffusion whose edge transition probability is proportional to a geometric distance weight d(v,u)^(n−2), following the paper's Delaunay discretization theorem. Use graph Dirichlet capacity on expanding node shells to detect whether information escapes through the graph or repeatedly returns to local neighborhoods, and use this signal to select propagation depth or add a regularizer.

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Paper: Topology and dynamics of unimodular random hyperbolic manifolds arXiv:2607.25065