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Working papers

The work behind this site, released as working drafts: a monograph and four papers, each with its own DOI. Each is free to read on Zenodo, where any later version will also appear.

These are working drafts, not final versions. They are unpolished in places, incomplete in others, and keep exploratory material a polished paper would leave out, because it helps decide what comes next and shows the program's big picture more fully. Please read them with that in mind: the work will be refined further.

• A Spectral Theory of Token Communication
  Operators, Amplification and the Architecture of Transformers
  Monograph · version 0.1 · October 2026
• The Transformer Abides
  What Attention Needs, and Why It Endures
  Entry paper · version 1.0 · October 2026
• Attention Sinks at Long Context
  One Log-N Law for Retrieval and Abstention
  Paper · version 1.0 · October 2026
• The Transformer as a Constrained Equilibrium
  A Lattice of Protections for Adaptive Sequence Mixing, and Where the Room Is
  Paper · version 1.0 · October 2026
• Beyond Transformers
  Sums, Maxima and the Price of Order
  Paper · version 1.0 · October 2026