most citedCoherent Comparison as Information Cost: A Cost-First Ledger Framework for Discrete Dynamics

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math.GM2026

Reciprocal Cost on the Positive Rationals

Jonathan Washburn, Sebastian Pardo-Guerra, Milan Zlatanović

We study nonnegative solutions of the reciprocal cost law on the positive rationals and determine which of them admit regular extensions to the positive reals. Using the substituti…

math.OC2026

d'Alembert's Functional Equation and a Globally Convex Free-Action Principle on Positive Paths

Sebastian Pardo-Guerra, Jonathan Washburn

We study the kinetic action that d'Alembert's functional equation induces on positive paths in $\Rplus$, and prove it strongly convex. Calibrated d'Alembert forces the cosh cost $\…

math.CO2026

The Cactus Criterion: When Nonlinear Hodge Theory Reduces to Linear on Graphs

Sebastian Pardo-Guerra, Anil Thapa, Jonathan Washburn

Let be a finite connected simple graph with a chosen orientation of its edges. For the edge potential we minimize over each affine c…

math.CO2026

Matching Rules as Cocycle Conditions: Discrete Potentials on Penrose and Canonical Projection Tilings

Sebastian Pardo-Guerra, Jonathan Washburn, Elshad Allahyarov

Aperiodic tilings support two classically studied but hitherto separately presented structures: matching rules, which enforce global order via local constraints, and height functio…

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Coherent Comparison as Information Cost: A Cost-First Ledger Framework for Discrete Dynamics

Sebastian Pardo-Guerra, Megan Simons, Anil Thapa +1

We develop an information-theoretic framework for discrete dynamics grounded in a comparison-cost functional on ratios. Given two quantities compared via their ratio \(x=a/b\), we…