Regulated Instability
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Complex systems often display sudden transitions from stable behavior to catastrophic divergence. Financial markets crash, atmospheric flows become turbulent, and large-scale physical systems exhibit structural instability. This paper proposes a unified interpretation of these phenomena using Scale-Regulated Aggregation (SRA) and the Additive–Multiplicative (AM) Regulator. [1][2]
Using high-frequency financial data (NASDAQ TotalView-ITCH, CME futures feeds) and atmospheric flow observations (NOAA NEXRAD radar and ECMWF meteorological grids), the author shows that instability across these domains follows a common numerical pattern.
A dimensionless divergence index λ =| ∆ X|/ σ Xreveals identical regime transitions. When additive accumulation exceeds multiplicative regulation, systems enter instability bands.
The results suggest that financial crashes and turbulent flows are not unrelated phenomena but expressions of a shared structural principle governing scale-dependent accumulation.