Oscillatory motion to collision and infinity in the Earth-Moon restricted three body problem
arXiv:2608.05400
2026
Dynamics
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What the math gives to ML
The paper provides a constructive topological mechanism for proving that trajectories follow prescribed itineraries through regions of phase space: h-set covering relations combined with cone invariance and hyperbolic evolution. This can transfer to neural optimization by treating a finite sequence of parameter-space or optimizer-state boxes as certified training regions and verifying that the optimizer map covers the next box while contracting transverse directions. The resulting method predicts a sharp feasibility boundary in learning rate, momentum, or weight scale where covering relations cease to hold. A practical first use is to certify that an optimizer enters and remains in a low-loss basin through a short chain of training-state regions.
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2026
Partition a low-dimensional projection of optimizer state into oriented h-sets and require each optimizer update to map one set across the next while remaining bounded in transverse coordinates. The chain acts as a finite-horizon topological certificate that training cannot leave the intended corridor before reaching a target loss basin.
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