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Market Dynamics of Information Avalanches

Financial markets convert the incremental arrival of information into asset price changes. In a sandpile model grains of sand represent bits of data, and the size of an avalanche, governed by a scaling law, is linked to price volatility. While this model of self-organized criticality reproduces styl

Lab Rats Math 6.5 Rigor 2 ·  February 27, 2026

Gambling the World Away: Myopic Investors

Myopic investors are locally rational decision-makers but globally irrational. Their suboptimal portfolios lag the market. As a consequence, other market participants are provided with profit opportunities. Not subterfuge but constrained optimisation leads to disparities. Four overlapping examples a

Lab Rats Math 5.5 Rigor 2.5 ·  February 27, 2023

Caratheodory II: The Geometry of Financial Irreversibility

In quantum mechanics and finance, numeraire invariance - the unobservability of absolute phase or price scale - fits with a projective and curved state space. This projective geometry has a measurable signature. For spin-one and higher spin systems, the Taylor expansion of directed distance contains

Lab Rats Math 6.5 Rigor 1.5 ·  March 10, 2026

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