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LEDGER: A Long-Context Benchmark of Corporate Annual Reports for Grounded Financial Retrieval and Extraction

Finance reporting is a natural proving ground for large language models, and the very-long-context capabilities of recent models across all sizes make rigorous evaluation in this domain an increasingly pressing need. Yet most public financial resources reduce the task to plain-text SEC 10-K filings paired with a handful of question-answer items. We release LEDGER (Long-context Evaluation of Documents for Grounded Extraction and Retrieval), a corpus of 4,999 digitized corporate annual reports - full documents with figures, tables, and narrative, not just regulatory filings. Each report is labeled with 31 consolidated financial KPIs to be extracted and linked to the market's reaction at the earnings date. From this data we derive three evaluation benchmarks spanning the difficulty spectrum: a pure page-level KPI retrieval task with TREC-style relevance judgments over 118,048 questions in natural language, a conversational "needle-in-a-haystack" single-value lookup, and a full KPI extraction task, both from long, numerically dense reports. We additionally provide human OCR-quality annotations with inter-annotator agreement and the complete extraction, validation, and scoring toolchain. We further demonstrate the dataset's research utility with a case study linking CEO-letter rhetoric to post-publication market impact.

cs.CL

Learned Hallucination Detection in Black-Box LLMs using Token-level Entropy Production Rate

Hallucinations in Large Language Model (LLM) outputs for Question Answering (QA) tasks can critically undermine their real-world reliability. This paper introduces a methodology for robust, one-shot hallucination detection, specifically designed for scenarios with limited data access, such as interacting with black-box LLM APIs that typically expose only a few top candidate log-probabilities per token. Our approach derives uncertainty indicators directly from these readily available log-probabilities generated during non-greedy decoding. We first derive an Entropy Production Rate (EPR) that offers baseline performance, later augmented with supervised learning. Our learned model leverages the entropic contributions of the accessible top-ranked tokens within a single generated sequence, without multiple re-runs per query. Evaluated across diverse QA datasets and multiple LLMs, this estimator significantly improves token-level hallucination detection over state-of-the-art methods. Crucially, high performance is demonstrated using only the typically small set of available log-probabilities (e.g., top-10 per token), confirming its practical efficiency and suitability for API-constrained deployments. This work provides a lightweight technique to enhance the trustworthiness of LLM responses, at the token level, after a single generation pass, for QA and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. Our experiments confirmed the performance of our method against existing approaches on public dataset as well as for a financial framework analyzing annual company reports.

cs.CL

Complex degenerate metrics in general relativity: a covariant extension of the Moore-Penrose algorithm

The Moore-Penrose algorithm provides a generalized notion of an inverse, applicable to degenerate matrices. In this paper, we introduce a covariant extension of the Moore-Penrose method that permits to deal with general relativity involving complex non-invertible metrics. Unlike the standard technique, this approach guarantees the uniqueness of the pseudoinverse metric through the fulfillment of a set of covariant relations, and it allows for the proper definition of a covariant derivative operator and curvature-related tensors. Remarkably, the degenerate nature of the metric can be given a geometrical representation in terms of a torsion tensor, which vanishes only in special cases. Applications of the new scheme to complex black hole geometries and cosmological models are also investigated, and a generalized concept of geodesics that exploits the notion of autoparallel and extremal curves is presented. Relevance of our findings to quantum gravity and quantum cosmology is finally discussed.

gr-qc

Fundamental polytope for the isometry group of an alcove

A fundamental alcove $\mathcal{A}$ is a tile in a paving of a vector space $V$ by an affine reflection group $W_{\mathrm{aff}}$. Its geometry encodes essential features of $W_{\mathrm{aff}}$, such as its affine Dynkin diagram $\widetilde{D}$ and fundamental group $\Omega$. In this article we investigate its full isometry group $\mathrm{Aut}(\mathcal{A})$. It is well known that the isometry group of a regular polyhedron is generated by hyperplane reflections on its faces. Being a simplex, an alcove $\mathcal{A}$ is the simplest of polyhedra, nevertheless it is seldom a regular one. In our first main result we show that $\mathrm{Aut}(\mathcal{A})$ is isomorphic to $\mathrm{Aut}(\widetilde{D})$. Building on this connection, we establish that $\mathrm{Aut}(\mathcal{A})$ is an abstract Coxeter group, with generators given by affine isometric involutions of the ambient space. Although these involutions are seldom reflections, our second main result leverages them to construct, by slicing the Komrakov--Premet fundamental polytope $\mathcal{K}$ for the action of $\Omega$, a family of fundamental polytopes for the action of $\mathrm{Aut}(\mathcal{A})$ on $\mathcal{A}$, whose vertices are contained in the vertices of $\mathcal{K}$ and whose faces are parametrized by the so-called balanced minuscule roots, which we introduce here. In an appendix, we discuss some related negative results on stratified centralizers and equivariant triangulations.

math.CO

Fundamental polytope for the Weyl group acting on a maximal torus of a compact Lie group

We provide a fundamental domain for the action of the finite Weyl group on a maximal torus of a compact Lie group of the corresponding type. The general situation is reduced to the adjoint case and, from the perspective of root data, this problem can be rephrased by asking for a fundamental polytope for the action of the extended affine Weyl group on the (dual) toral subalgebra. We solve the problem in this second form. Using the theory of minuscule weights, we obtain a description of this fundamental polytope as a convex hull of explicit vertices, and as an intersection of closed half-spaces. The latter description was first obtained by Komrakov and Premet in 1984 but, as the present work is independent of that of Komrakov-Premet, we give a new self-contained proof of it. We also derive some consequences on the structure of automorphism groups of extended Dynkin diagrams.

math.AT

Particle dynamics in spherically symmetric electro-vacuum instantons

In this paper, we study the geodesic motion in spherically symmetric electro-vacuum Euclidean solutions of the Einstein equation. There are two kinds of such solutions: the Euclidean Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m (ERN) metrics, and the Bertotti-Robinson-like (BR) metrics, the latter having constant Kretschmann scalar. First, we derive the motion equations for the ERN spacetime and we generalize the results of Battista-Esposito, showing that all orbits in as ERN spacetime are unbounded if and only if it has an event horizon. We also obtain the Weierstrass form of the polar radial motion, providing an efficient tool for numerical computations. We then study the angular deflection of orbits in the Euclidean Schwarzschild spacetime which, in contrast to the Lorentzian background, can be either positive or negative. We observe the presence of a null and a maximal deflection rings for particles with velocity at infinity $v>1$ and we give approximate values for their size when $v\gtrsim1$. For BR spacetimes, we obtain analytic solutions for the radial motion in proper length, involving (hyperbolic) trigonometric functions and we deduce that orbits either exponentially go to the singularity or are periodic. Finally, we apply the previous results and use algorithms related to Weierstrass' elliptic functions to produce a Python code to plot orbits of the spacetimes ERN and BR, and draw "shadows" of the first ones, as it was already done before for classical black holes.

gr-qc

Motion equations in a Kerr-Newman-de Sitter spacetime: some methods of integration and application to black holes shadowing in Scilab

In this paper, we recall some basic facts about the Kerr--Newman--(anti) de Sitter (KNdS) spacetime and review several formulations and integration methods for the geodesic equation of a test particle in such a spacetime. In particular, we introduce some basic general symplectic integrators in the Hamiltonian formalism and we re-derive the separated motion equations using Carter's method. After this theoretical background, we explain how to ray-trace a KNdS black hole, equipped with a thin accretion disk, using Scilab. We compare the accuracy and execution time of the previous methods, concluding that the Carter equations is the best one. Then, inspired by Hagihara, we apply Weierstrass' elliptic functions to the non-rotating case, yielding a fairly fast shadowing program for such a spacetime. We provide some illustrations of the code, including a depiction of the effects of the cosmological constant on shadows and accretion disk, as well as a simulation of M87*.

gr-qc

Equivariant triangulations of tori of compact Lie groups and hyperbolic extension to non-crystallographic Coxeter groups

Given a simple connected compact Lie group $K$ and a maximal torus $T$ of $K$, the Weyl group $W=N_K(T)/T$ naturally acts on $T$. First, we use the combinatorics of the (extended) affine Weyl group to provide an explicit $W$-equivariant triangulation of $T$. We describe the associated $W$-dg-ring. For a non-crystallographic Coxeter group, using compact hyperbolic extensions rather than affine ones, we construct a compact $W$-manifold $\mathbf{T}(W)$, which is an analogue of a torus for $W$. We exhibit a $W$-equivariant triangulation of $\mathbf{T}(W)$ and compute the associated $W$-dg-ring. Also, we derive its homology representation.

math.AT

Dirichlet-Voronoi domain and injectivity radius of flag manifolds -- equivariant cell structure on $O(3)/O(1)^3$

In the first part of this work, we study Dirichlet--Voronoi domains for discrete isometry groups of Riemannian manifolds, in view of constructing cell structures on homogeneous (complete, real) flag manifolds, equivariant with respect to the action of the Weyl group. We give general results, allowing us to build such a structure from an admissible one on the domain. In particular, the injectivity radius plays a key role in the method. The second part starts with the computation of the injectivity radius of (real and complex) flag manifolds; a first step towards the application of the method developed in the first part. Then, with the help of the quaternion algebra, we investigate the particular case of the flag manifold $O(3)/O(1)^3$ of $SL_3(\mathbb{R})$: we prove that the results of the first part apply and derive a new $\mathfrak{S}_3$-equivariant cell structure on it, whose cellular complex of $\mathbb{Z}[\mathfrak{S}_3]$-modules is determined.

math.DG