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nlin.CD2026

A New Route to Chaos through the Geometric Composition of Non-Normal Amplification

D. Sornette, V. R. Saiprasad, V. Troude

Chaos emerges when stretching is repeatedly recycled by reinjection. We uncover a new route to chaos in which the decisive variable is the temporal order of non-normal tangent maps…

physics.bio-ph2026

No persistent circadian oscillator at genome resolution: pseudo-coherence in gut microbiome dynamics

V. Troude, L. Takayasu, R. Maskawa +4

Diurnal rhythms in the gut microbiome are commonly read as evidence of host-driven entrainment or of microbial oscillators that synchronise to a common clock. We reanalyse hourly g…

physics.data-an2026

Inferring Non-Normal Amplification Geometry from Multivariate Time Series

V. R. Saiprasad, V. Troude, D. Sornette

Across hydrodynamics, ecology, neuroscience, network dynamics, non-Hermitian physics, and socio-economic systems, asymptotically stable dynamics can exhibit large transient amplifi…

physics.soc-ph2026

Toward a Geopolitical Crisis Observatory: Diagnosing Systemic Risk in News Flows Using Complex Systems Science

Didier Sornette

Complex-systems science provides media institutions with a rigorous framework to move from reactive reporting to anticipatory diagnosis. Critical events are understood as regime sh…

physics.soc-ph2026

Social Amplification Dominates Collective Hazard Response

Xiaolei Chu, Guanren Zhou, Marco Broccardo +3

Large-scale hazards affect societies not only through direct physical impacts but also through emotions that spread across populations. Fueled by social amplification and networked…

cs.SI2026

HawkesRank: Event-Driven Centrality for Real-Time Importance Ranking

Didier Sornette, Yishan Luo, Sandro Claudio Lera

Quantifying influence in networks is important across science, economics, and public health, yet widely used centrality measures remain limited: they rely on static representations…

nlin.AO2026

Pseudo-Coherence and Stochastic Synchronization: A Non-Normal Route to Collective Dynamics without Oscillators

V. Troude, D. Sornette

Collective temporal organization in complex systems is commonly attributed to synchronization, resonance, or proximity to dynamical instabilities. Here we identify a distinct mecha…

nlin.CD2026

Non-Normal Route to Chaos

D. Sornette, V. R. Saiprasad, V. Troude

Deterministic chaos is usually associated with local spectral expansion: Jacobian eigenvalues are expected to exceed unity somewhere on the attractor. We show that this view is inc…

cs.AI2026

Why AI Alignment Failure Is Structural: Learned Human Interaction Structures and AGI as an Endogenous Evolutionary Shock

Didier Sornette, Sandro Claudio Lera, Ke Wu

Recent reports of large language models (LLMs) exhibiting behaviors such as deception, threats, or blackmail are often interpreted as evidence of alignment failure or emergent mali…