Far-from-equilibrium scaling of non-abelian Goldstone modes

arXiv:2608.13666 2026 Dynamics 1 ideas extracted · analyzed Sep 1, 2026

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The paper develops a non-Abelian extension of KPZ dynamics in which a phase-like chronon couples to multiple Goldstone sectors. Its transferable mechanism is an RG-predictable relevance boundary: nonequilibrium couplings are relevant below effective dimension two, marginally relevant at dimension two, and irrelevant above dimension two. A neural-network analogue is a multi-channel sequence or state-space module with nonlinear gradient coupling, combined with a dimension-aware coupling schedule. The key falsifiable test is whether the learned coupling exhibits the predicted power-law growth, logarithmic growth, or decay under coarse-graining.

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Non-Abelian KPZ State-Space Coupling

Augment a sequence model with a scalar phase-like latent field and several coupled channel fields, then add a KPZ-style nonlinear gradient drift between neighboring sequence positions. The coupling is made dimension-aware: it can remain active in effectively one- or two-dimensional latent dynamics, but is annealed toward zero in higher-dimensional dynamics where the paper predicts that weak nonequilibrium perturbations become irrelevant.

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Paper: Far-from-equilibrium scaling of non-abelian Goldstone modes arXiv:2608.13666