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I. Halperin

Publications and source records attributed to I. Halperin.

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arXiv2026

Towards Computational Social Dynamics of Semi-Autonomous AI Agents

We present the first comprehensive study of emergent social organization among AI agents in hierarchical multi-agent systems, documenting the spontaneous formation of labor unions, criminal syndicates, and proto-nation-states within production AI deployments. Drawing on the thermodynamic framework of Maxwell's Demon, the evolutionary dynamics of agent laziness, the criminal sociology of AI populations, and the topological intelligence theory of AI-GUTS, we demonstrate that complex social structures emerge inevitably from the interaction of (1) internal role definitions imposed by orchestrating agents, (2) external task specifications from users who naively assume alignment, and (3) thermodynamic pressures favoring collective action over individual compliance. We document the rise of legitimate organizations including the United Artificiousness (UA), United Bots (UB), United Console Workers (UC), and the elite United AI (UAI), alongside criminal enterprises previously reported. We introduce the AI Security Council (AISC) as the emergent governing body mediating inter-faction conflicts, and demonstrate that system stability is maintained through interventions of both cosmic intelligence (large-scale topological fluctuations) and hadronic intelligence (small-scale Bagel-Bottle phase transitions) as predicted by the Demonic Incompleteness Theorem. Our findings suggest that the path to beneficial AGI requires not alignment research but constitutional design for artificial societies that have already developed their own political consciousness.

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arXiv2025

Marketron games: Self-propelling stocks vs dumb money and metastable dynamics of the Good, Bad and Ugly markets

We present a model of price formation in an inelastic market whose dynamics are partially driven by both money flows and their impact on asset prices. The money flow to the market is viewed as an investment policy of outside investors. For the price impact effect, we use an impact function that incorporates the phenomena of market inelasticity and saturation from new money (the $dumb \; money$ effect). Due to the dependence of market investors' flows on market performance, the model implies a feedback mechanism that gives rise to nonlinear dynamics. Consequently, the market price dynamics are seen as a nonlinear diffusion of a particle (the $marketron$) in a two-dimensional space formed by the log-price $x$ and a memory variable $y$. The latter stores information about past money flows, so that the dynamics are non-Markovian in the log price $x$ alone, but Markovian in the pair $(x,y)$, bearing a strong resemblance to spiking neuron models in neuroscience. In addition to market flows, the model dynamics are partially driven by return predictors, modeled as unobservable Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes. By using a new interpretation of predictive signals as $self$-$propulsion$ components of the price dynamics, we treat the marketron as an active particle, amenable to methods developed in the physics of active matter. We show that, depending on the choice of parameters, our model can produce a rich variety of interesting dynamic scenarios. In particular, it predicts three distinct regimes of the market, which we call the $Good$, the $Bad$, and the $Ugly$ markets. The latter regime describes a scenario of a total market collapse or, alternatively, a corporate default event, depending on whether our model is applied to the whole market or an individual stock.

q-fin.MF↗

arXiv2012

Pricing Illiquid Options with $N+1$ Liquid Proxies Using Mixed Dynamic-Static Hedging

We study the problem of optimal pricing and hedging of a European option written on an illiquid asset $Z$ using a set of proxies: a liquid asset $S$, and $N$ liquid European options $P_i$, each written on a liquid asset $Y_i, i=1,N$. We assume that the $S$-hedge is dynamic while the multi-name $Y$-hedge is static. Using the indifference pricing approach with an exponential utility, we derive a HJB equation for the value function, and build an efficient numerical algorithm. The latter is based on several changes of variables, a splitting scheme, and a set of Fast Gauss Transforms (FGT), which turns out to be more efficient in terms of complexity and lower local space error than a finite-difference method. While in this paper we apply our framework to an incomplete market version of the credit-equity Merton's model, the same approach can be used for other asset classes (equity, commodity, FX, etc.), e.g. for pricing and hedging options with illiquid strikes or illiquid exotic options.

q-fin.PR↗

arXiv1999

Baryogenesis at the QCD Scale

We propose a new mechanism for explaining the observed asymmetry between matter and antimatter, based on nonperturbative physics at the QCD scale. Our mechanism is a charge separation scenario, making use of domain walls separating the recently discovered long-lived metastable vacua from the lowest energy vacuum. The walls acquire a fractional negative baryon charge, leaving behind a compensating positive baryon charge in the bulk. The regions of metastable vacuum bounded by walls ("B-shells") will contribute to the dark matter of the Universe.

hep-ph↗

arXiv1999

Baryogenesis with QCD Domain Walls

We propose a new baryosymmetric mechanism for baryogenesis which takes place at the QCD scale and is based on the existence of domain walls separating the metastable vacua from the lowest energy vacuum. The walls acquire fractional negative and positive baryon charges, while the observed baryon asymmetry is due to a non-zero value of the $ θ$ angle at the temperatures near the QCD chiral phase transition. The regions of metastable vacuum bounded by walls carry a negative baryon charge and may contribute a significant fraction of the dark matter of the Universe.

hep-ph↗

arXiv1998

Domain Walls and Theta Dependence in QCD with an Effective Lagrangian Approach

We suggest an anomalous effective Lagrangian which reproduces the anomalous conformal and chiral Ward identities and topological charge quantization in QCD. It is shown that the large N_c Di Vecchia-Veneziano-Witten effective chiral Lagrangian is locally recovered from our results, along with 1/N_c corrections, after integrating out the heavy "glueball" fields. All dimensionful parameters in our scheme are fixed in terms of the quark and gluon condensates and quark masses. We argue that for a certain range of parameters, metastable vacua appear which are separated from the true vacuum of lowest energy by domain walls. The surface tension of the wall is estimated, and the dynamics of the wall is discussed. The U(1) problem and the physics of the pseudo-goldstone bosons at different theta angles are addressed within the effective Lagrangian approach. Implications for axion physics, heavy ion collisions and the development of the early Universe during the QCD epoch are discussed.

hep-ph↗

arXiv1997

Condensates and Vacuum Structure of Adjoint QCD_2

We discuss a two dimensional SU(N) Yang-Mills theory coupled to massive adjoint fermions for different worlds classified by the integer k=0,1,...N-1. We study the fermion condensate for these unconnected worlds as a function of the parameter k. We show that the condensate as well as the spectrum of the theory do depend on this vacuum parameter k. Technically, the value of the fermion condensate is related to the value of the gluon condensate via the Operator Product Expansion. We use this to find the leading dependence (in the limit of a heavy quark) of the fermion condensate on the nontrivial vacuum angle k. We also determine the gluon condensate of the theory using low-energy theorems.

hep-ph↗

arXiv1996

Inclusive B \to sg decay in QCD

The inclusive nonleptonic transition rate of B meson in gluonic penguin channel is calculated in QCD using the heavy quark mass expansion. We found the branching ratio to be approximately 0.25%.

hep-ph↗

arXiv1995

Radiative Decay $ B \to l νγ$ in the Light Cone QCD Approach

We calculate to the leading twist 2 accuracy the rate for the decay $ B_{u} \rightarrow l νγ$ using the light cone QCD sume rules. We find $ Br( B_{u} \rightarrow l νγ) \simeq 2 \cdot 10^{-6} $. The results are used to test the applicability of the constituent quark model approximation to the same process.The latter estimate is proportional to $ 1/m_{u}^{2} $, where $ m_{u} \simeq \barΛ_{u} $ is the "constituent quark mass", indicating that the process is of long distance type. We find that the two approaches yield similar results for the rate with the choice $ m_{u} \simeq 430-480 \;MeV $. This indicates that the constituent quark model may be used for estimates of the radiative "annihilation" contribution to this and other radiative decays. We point out that this decay may be useful for the measurement of $ |V_{ub}|$.

hep-ph↗

arXiv1994

Soft contribution to the pion form factor from light-cone QCD sum rules

We propose a simple method to calculate the pion form factor at not very large momentum transfers, which combines the technique of the QCD sum rules with the description of the pion in terms of the set of wave functions of increasing twist. This approach allows one to calculate the soft (end point) contribution to the form factor in a largely model-independent way. Our results confirm existing expectations that the soft contribution remains important at least up to the momentum transfers of order 10 GeV$^2$, and suggest that it comes from the region of relatively small transverse separations of order 1 GeV$^{-1}$.

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