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Mathematical Physics · Est. 2026
ZeroResist Labs

We're obsessed with the phase transition between order and chaos.

QUASICRYSTALS KAM SINGULAR LEARNING THEORY
OUR MOTIVES ARE BASIC

We hypothesize the intersection of information theory, dynamical systems, aperiodic order, number theory, and control holds the secrets of the universe—and, more immediately, the unlock to bio-mimicked superintelligence. We're following our curiosity, not a market. But we do aspire to beat Bragg for the youngest Nobel Prize ever awarded. The holographic principle keeps us up at night.

LORENZ ATTRACTOR
Research
DYNAMICS & STABILITY
01

Certified Golden-Branch Maximality in a Generated Standard-Map Domain

Twist a system harder and harder, and its stable orbits break one by one. A computer-certified proof that the circle rotating at the golden mean is the most robust of its class — the last to break.

POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS

Certified stability margins for systems that must not drift: particle accelerators, magnetically confined plasmas, long-horizon orbital design.

02

Rational Trace Discontinuities and Irrational Continuity for Kwapisz-Like Rotation Sets

A map of every average direction a torus system can drift. Tune the parameter and that map jumps at every rational value yet glides smoothly through every irrational one — order and chaos interleaved on the number line.

POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS

Mode-locking and synchronization: coupled oscillators, phase-locked loops, and digital control systems that quantize their inputs.

RANDOM MATRICES & SPECTRAL TRANSITIONS
03

Projective Entropy Deletion and Tilted Bulk Spectral Measures Below BBP

Delete one direction from a noisy dataset and watch the entropy respond. Below the detection threshold a planted signal never appears as an outlier — instead it tilts the entire spectrum, leaving a footprint combed across every eigenvalue.

POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS

Recovering signals conventional PCA declares invisible — weak-factor detection in finance, genomics, and sensor arrays.

04

Analytic Invisibility at the Baik–Ben Arous–Péché Transition

At the exact moment a signal grows strong enough to escape the noise bulk, the spectrum kinks — yet every smooth statistic stays perfectly analytic. The emerging outlier steals exactly the residue the bulk loses; the books balance to all orders.

POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS

A no-go result for detection: smooth spectral statistics cannot flag the birth of a signal — sharper tests must read the edge, not the bulk.

05

A Twelve-Ray Fractional-Edge Process in a Convex Unitary Ensemble

Spectra usually end with a square-root profile and Tracy–Widom fluctuations. Here is an ensemble whose edge vanishes as a cube root instead, its new local process resolved through a twelve-ray Riemann–Hilbert problem with exact threefold symmetry.

POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS

A candidate universality class for extreme values beyond Tracy–Widom — correlated growth processes, the stiffest modes of constrained systems.

06

Forbidden Gaps at a One-Sided Fractional Edge: Two-Cut Equilibrium and Exact Pressure

Forbid eigenvalues from a window beside that fractional edge and the spectrum splits in two, displaced mass reappearing across the gap. The pressure this exclusion exerts is exact: free energy grows as the 8/3 power of the gap.

POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS

Exact rare-event costs for spectral exclusion zones — outage probabilities in MIMO communication, constrained ensembles in statistical physics.

07

Information Retention and Local Attribution after Covariance-Spectrum Compression

Compress a dataset down to its covariance eigenvalues and almost everything about the raw entries is erased. What survives, exactly, is one number — the fourth cumulant, the spectrum’s only remaining memory of non-Gaussianity.

POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS

Knowing precisely what spectrum-only pipelines can and cannot see — privacy-aware sketching, Gaussianity tests in cosmology and risk modeling.

LEARNING & INFORMATION
08

K-FAC Laplace Evidence Is Boundary-Fragile

Approximate Bayesian evidence ranks neural models well — until two models sit near a decision boundary, where curvature-approximation error can silently flip the verdict. A fragility score flags exactly which comparisons not to trust.

POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS

Audit rules for automated model selection — Bayesian deep learning, AutoML pipelines, safety cases built on evidence comparisons.

09

Relational Order in Sampling Blackwell Deficiency: Rényi Collision Complexity and Exact Parity Gaps

How much better is one information source than another when the state labels are hidden? The answer meets a hard barrier: no number of independent samples can substitute for the cross-state relations you never observed.

POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS

Fundamental limits for comparing sensors, datasets, and models without shared labels — data valuation, privacy-preserving benchmarking.

ALGEBRA & COMBINATORICS
10

Positive Reflection Symmetrizers: Random Walks and an Abel–Young Character of Ordered Trees

An averaging operator built from reflections turns out to be a random walk: activate the edges of a random tree one by one and shuffle accordingly. Its complete spectrum, its mixing cutoff, and the ordered-tree character behind both — all exact.

POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS

Exact mixing-time guarantees for shuffling-type Markov chains — MCMC design, distributed consensus, randomized linear algebra.

The Founders
Seyed Ali Rastegar and Surya Tallavarjula
FARADAY & MAXWELL

Seyed Ali Rastegar

Co-founder · Mathematics, UC Berkeley

The theorist. Seyed Ali generates the unbounded conjectures — high-dimensional, non-convex, often with no proven bounds — then sprints to the next frontier the moment one stops surprising him.

Surya Tallavarjula

Co-founder · Physics, Stanford

The empiricist. Surya observes where those conjectures lead. He constraints them against real physics - boundary conditions, conservation laws, measure able observables - and carries them to working theory.

THE ADVISOR

Dr. Sai

Advisor · Director of Technology, Intel

The realist. A nuclear engineering PhD and semiconductor physics expert, Dr. Sai has spent three decades pushing silicon to its physical limits — advanced Logic/FinFET, 3D NAND, and DRAM at Applied Materials, Director of Engineering at Veeco, now Director of Technology at Intel. He advises on how our theoretical work applies to industry.