Research articles
Original accounts of the problems behind the papers, how the research addresses them and why the connections between disciplines matter.
22 October 2026 · Digital Scarcity · Recovery · Digital commerce
An authentic backup can revive an authority that a transfer had extinguished. Public research connects state continuity, fork detection and accountable recovery to the economics of scarce digital services.
Read the article21 October 2026 · Quantum computing · Measurement · Engineering
A faster routine can leave the complete task slower. A public mini-review connects quantum algorithms to preparation, repeated measurements, verification and the evidence needed for practical advantage.
Read the article20 October 2026 · Security · Economics · Incentives
A control can reduce total expected losses while looking uneconomic to its purchaser. Public research connects security investment to the allocation of costs, benefits and responsibility.
Read the article19 October 2026 · Digital Scarcity · Transparency · Digital commerce
An authentic entitlement can coexist with too many competing claims. Public research connects auditable issuance, outstanding obligations and institutional commitment to the supply side of digital scarcity.
Read the article19 October 2026 · Security · Human factors · Incident response
A repeatable procedure can preserve necessary questions under pressure. Published incident-response research connects checklists to expert judgment, interruption, handover and the evidence needed to evaluate a decision.
Read the article18 October 2026 · Security · Storage · Verification
A successful erasure message needs a defined scope. Published forensic research, SSD experiments and current sanitisation guidance connect storage architecture to the evidence required for a defensible release decision.
Read the article16 October 2026 · Mathematics · Traffic flow · Control
A queue can form without a fixed obstruction. Public research connects delayed vehicle-following responses with the growth of disturbances, while ring-road experiments show what carefully controlled interventions can change.
Read the article15 October 2026 · Digital Scarcity · Privacy · Digital commerce
A limited entitlement need not expose every fact used to establish eligibility. Public standards and institutional research connect blinded authorisation, issuing policy and privacy to the design of digital commerce.
Read the article15 October 2026 · Computing · Economics · Security design
Committee size consumes a security budget as well as distributing responsibility. Public research separates the exact integer choice from a smooth approximation and asks what additional protection each participant buys.
Read the article14 October 2026 · Econometrics · Policy evaluation · Research design
A policy-effect chart can mix different groups and stages of exposure. Public research connects adoption timing, comparison choices and trend assumptions to what an event study can establish.
Read the article13 October 2026 · Econometrics · Forecasting · Decision design
A closer forecast can cross the wrong decision boundary. A public preprint connects calibration to trading costs, feasible choices and the consequences of acting on a prediction.
Read the article12 October 2026 · Digital Scarcity · Distributed systems · Economics
A genuine entitlement can reach two accepting services at once. Public research and standards show why scarce redemption depends on current authority, coordinated consumption and recoverable delivery.
Read the article11 October 2026 · Software engineering · Economics · Security
Implementation is only part of the job. Published research on in-house software development connects productivity to debugging, maintenance and the further work a repair can create.
Read the article10 October 2026 · Security · Statistics · Audit
An incident and its discovery have different clocks. Public research on system auditing connects incomplete observation, inspection choices and the economic use of security resources.
Read the article9 October 2026 · Computing · Economics · Law
A pool’s available computing power depends on contributors who can leave. Published research connects payout performance, conditional enforcement and the capacity a coalition can sustain.
Read the article8 October 2026 · Law · Securities · Governance
Lost keys, provider failure and lawful corrections test whether recorded ownership remains usable. My SEC comment proposes recovery tests for the complete securities-register arrangement.
Read the article7 October 2026 · Computing · Networks · Measurement
Historical Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash samples reveal short routes and uneven connectivity. The research examines how network structure is measured and which further evidence is needed to explain it.
Read the article6 October 2026 · Computing · Probability · Incentives
The next hash, the next difficulty adjustment, a maturing reward and a growing chain run on different clocks. Published research examines which parts of that history a security model must retain.
Read the articleFinancial intermediation · Supply chains · Public finance
A public receipt can reach a financier, an old supplier or current activity in different orders. Research identifies when that priority leaves allocation unchanged and when it changes the best recipient.
Read the articlePsychology · Communication · Qualitative methods
Recognition, questions about evidence and competing causal accounts shape responses to a generational narrative. A qualitative study follows the reasons behind a divided comment sample.
Read the articlePolitical economy · Institutions · Measurement
A theoretical boundary, a national percentage and a bend in a graph can describe different things. Research audits the connection between coercive institutions and the measures used to study them.
Read the articlePsychology · Measurement · Evidence synthesis
Who supplied the outcome, which items were asked, and whose samples were compared? A reanalysis makes those design choices central to interpreting personality research.
Read the articleMathematics · Econometrics · Measurement
A stopping rule can preserve identifying information at an average cost of two calls, yet leave crucial histories extremely rare. Research separates economical acquisition from useful precision.
Read the articleAccounting · Supply chains · Measurement
Deleting voluntarily disclosed customer relationships can change both the population and its measured concentration. Research uses a reporting boundary to make that selection visible.
Read the articlePsychology · Mathematics · Evidence synthesis
A precise coefficient can sit close to a sign reversal. Research gives that distance a simple form and connects it to the measurements and study populations beneath a pooled comparison.
Read the articleAncient history · Diplomacy · Commitment
Proving peaceful intent may require surrendering a position that makes you safe. Research on Rome and Antiochus III examines how this conflict can turn repeated negotiations into accumulating suspicion.
Read the articleEconomic history · Law · Accounting
A medieval lawsuit can begin with a debt and end with a release that defeats it. Following the record changes how we reconstruct lenders, obligations and the administration of business.
Read the articleEducation · AI · Procedural fairness
Faithful transcription and machine-generated reasoning can produce similarly polished documents. Published research asks how assessment rules and workflow evidence can distinguish the intellectual contribution.
Read the articleAI · Law · Institutional design
The same training material can be protected expression and personal information. Published research examines how governance can coordinate those interests across the model’s life.
Read the articlePhysics · Mathematics · Information geometry
How can a statistical ruler help examine a fluid approximation? Published research connects moment states, transport and curvature within a controlled relativistic kinetic model.
Read the articlePayment engineering · Economics · Digital services
A fixed processing charge can dominate a small payment. Published research examines how value-based and byte-based fee designs change the threshold, with service costs and test conditions kept explicit.
Read the articleInnovation · Psychology · Evidence
A genuine demonstration can leave its advertised process unresolved. The research distinguishes usable reasons for judgment from liking, belief and the need for further evidence.
Read the articleMathematics · AI · Engineering assurance
A rewrite can preserve every feasible action and physical cost while changing an AI system’s probabilities or learning objective. The research identifies the additional conditions needed at that interface.
Read the articleEconomics · Computing · Institutional incentives
Unspent rewards, specialised equipment and future income connect a present choice to an ongoing business. Published research examines the implications for economic models of proof-of-work security.
Read the articleGovernance · Forensic accounting · Control design
Individually compliant payment approvals can concentrate access across the file. Research measures the full exposure curve and identifies eligible repairs, including the trade-offs they create.
Read the articleDigital Scarcity · Property · Institutions
A title can name a specific capability without claiming every copy of the information involved. The research examines the object, notice and evidenced divestment required for a meaningful transfer.
Read the articleDigital Scarcity · Economics · Security
A credible transfer gives the recipient control and makes the sender’s rival control non-viable. Research prices that promise through accountability, detection, containment and residual liability.
Read the articleGovernance · Economics · Digital infrastructure
Open admission and rule-changing authority are different questions. Published research examines how blockchain governance shapes the commitments made by people who invest in a network.
Read the articleSupply chains · Contracts · Resilience
A right can have zero standalone value and become essential when another right changes the worst disruption. LNG procurement research supplies an auditable test for evaluating backup portfolios.
Read the articleSupply chains · Product design · Capacity
Fewer physical drives can carry approximately the same total storage. Research on the hard-drive supply chain shows why capacity depends on the customer’s unit of commitment and how scarce components scale with design.
Read the articleSupply chains · Energy · Procurement
An operating decision can change which cargoes a buyer can receive. A research-stage study connects inventory, unloading and commercial rights to the alternatives available in emergency LNG procurement.
Read the articleOperations · AI · Contract design
After fallback protects the customer, unfinished computation can produce evidence for later service. The research examines how to buy that evidence while preserving incentives.
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