Symplectic Tiling Billiards on Complete Affine Tori
arXiv:2608.28894
2026
Dynamics
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What the math gives to ML
The paper provides a concrete projective-dynamics mechanism for complete affine torus tilings: affine holonomy elements with sufficiently large positive translational invariant drive almost every initial direction toward one of two distinguished projective directions, with the basin selected by the sign of a linear functional. The transferable asset is not the billiard geometry itself, but a parameterized family of structured affine recurrent maps with analytically predictable directional attraction. A neural recurrent architecture can use this as a long-horizon stabilization module or as a regularizer on products of hidden-state Jacobians. The mechanism is most plausible for low-dimensional latent state-space models, where projective directions and cumulative affine translation can be computed cheaply and the predicted angular-collapse behavior can be directly falsified.
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2026
Replace or augment a low-dimensional recurrent transition with affine maps whose linear parts belong to a structured unipotent holonomy family, and train the cell so that positive accumulated translation produces a controlled projective attractor. This creates a measurable two-basin long-horizon behavior: hidden-state perturbation directions should align with a learned direction X or its antipode according to the sign of a scalar functional, rather than exhibiting unconstrained rotation or…
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