Geometry in Motion: Spinors, 8D Manifolds, and Why It Matters
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TL;DR: We built math tooling—retrieval with citations, a Clifford‑aware layer stub, and notebooks—to reason about spinors and 8D manifolds. It turns hard ideas into simple, visual, shareable checks that speed up reviews and decision‑making.
Key takeaways
- Clearer decisions: turn complex math into checked, cited artifacts anyone can follow.
- Fewer review cycles: small, repeatable notebooks + benchmarks reduce risk and back‑and‑forth.
- Ready today: run the two notebooks and share the short JSON summary from the benchmark script.
A plain‑English tour (no jargon)
What is a spinor? Think of a compass needle that doesn’t just point north/south, but also behaves a little oddly when you spin it—sometimes you need a full double turn to get “back to where you started.” That behavior helps describe how things rotate in space at a very fine level. Our tools help you reason about those rotations consistently.
What is an 8D manifold? Imagine a map with many coordinates, not just left/right/up/down, but extra dials (like temperature, pressure, time, charge). An “8D manifold” is a clean way to keep track of eight of those dials at once. We use it as a structured space to test ideas and keep transformations honest.
Why should a non‑expert care? Because complex math shows up in real decisions (safety, quality, risk). If you can turn a whiteboard sketch into a small, checked, and cited artifact everyone understands, you save meetings, reduce risk, and move faster.
What the demo does
- Retrieval with citations: curated corpus for Cℓ(8), Spin(8) triality, Dirac operators, and 8D geometry.
- Clifford‑aware layer stub: a typed API to preserve multivector/spinor structure (research scaffolding).
- Notebooks: identity checks in Cℓ(8) and a toy 8D Dirac “sanity” grid to communicate intuition.
- Benchmarks: a tiny script produces signed run metrics to keep results reproducible.
See it in 60 seconds
- Open
notebooks/spinor_identities.ipynb and run the first cell. You’ll see basic rotation “truths” (like how basis directions multiply) checked automatically.
- Open
notebooks/dirac_8d_toy.ipynb. It prints simple numbers from a tiny “grid” in 8D—just enough to sanity‑check intuition.
- Run
scripts/math/benchmark_spinor.py to get a short JSON summary you can paste into docs or share with reviewers.
Why this matters commercially
- Faster evidence: turn hard math into checked, cited artifacts that non‑experts can follow.
- Better reviews: step‑by‑step derivations and sanity checks reduce review cycles and risk.
- Cross‑functional clarity: VCs, buyers, and compliance teams see how we reason—not just outcomes.
Who benefits
- Engineering leaders: fewer back‑and‑forths; clearer, testable math in design docs.
- Risk & compliance: artifacts with citations and repeatable runs, not hand‑waving.
- Buyers & investors: a window into how we think—showing rigor without exposing IP.
How to run it
- Math corpus:
docs/math/citations.jsonl, docs/math/RAG_README.md
- Layer stub:
src/math/equivariant/layers/spin8Clifford.ts
- Notebooks:
notebooks/spinor_identities.ipynb, notebooks/dirac_8d_toy.ipynb
- Benchmarks:
scripts/math/benchmark_spinor.py
Applications (now and next)
- Now: math‑heavy product docs, scientific demos for buyers, and internal validation of complex transformations.
- Next: group‑equivariant models for engineering domains (materials, vision on manifolds), with citations and evidence bundles.
What this is (and isn’t)
This is practical math tooling for reasoning and communication. Security work lives in our separate PQC rollout, which follows NIST standards and ships signed posture metrics.
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