Preprint / scholarly article
Thermodynamic Detection of Irreversible Phase Transitions for No-Meta Agents
- Published
- DOI
- 10.5281/zenodo.18013000
Abstract
The preprint defines an audit-friendly contract K_t that partitions agent cores into phases via probe responses and provides an information-theoretic certificate for irreversible phase transitions under finite memory, monitoring, and energy budgets, yielding a practical monitoring blueprint for no-meta agents.
Keywords
- no-meta
- irreversible phase transition
- finite memory
- contract monitoring
- probe family
- conditional min-entropy
- guessing probability
- information thermodynamics
- auditability
- resource constraints
- self-modifying agents