Lie groupoid integration of singular isometries of the Poincaré disk

arXiv:2608.30077 2026 Architecture 1 ideas extracted · analyzed Sep 1, 2026

What the math gives to ML

The paper gives a constructive way to integrate incomplete, singular infinitesimal symmetries into a Lie groupoid rather than forcing them into a globally defined group action. The transferable asset is the combination of source-dependent arrows, path-homotopy equivalence constrained to avoid a singular set, and composition by concatenation. In neural networks this suggests a local-equivariant layer whose transformations are valid only for a given latent source point and whose path class is retained, allowing singular or branched symmetries without introducing invalid global coordinate transformations.

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Unverified 2026

Singularity-Aware Groupoid Transport Layer

Replace a globally shared latent transformation group by a source-dependent collection of valid transformation paths. A feature at latent point z is transported only along paths whose transformed coordinate never reaches the singular locus, while homotopic paths are identified and composable paths are concatenated. This should let an equivariant model represent branched or incomplete symmetries that ordinary group-equivariant layers must discard.

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Paper: Lie groupoid integration of singular isometries of the Poincaré disk arXiv:2608.30077