G2 Root System

Hexagonal byte-pair symmetry
symmetrydim 26 metrics

What It Measures

Hexagonal symmetry in consecutive byte pairs.

Projects each pair of adjacent bytes onto the 12 roots of G2 — 6 short roots at 60-degree intervals, and 6 long roots at 30-degree offsets with length proportional to the square root of 3. This 2D root system captures the simplest non-trivial Lie algebra structure, operating at the smallest possible window size. Because it works on pairs, it acts as a fast correlation probe: any directional preference in the (byte_t, byte_{t+1}) scatterplot shows up as root concentration.

Metrics

alignment_std

Variation in how tightly byte pairs align with the nearest G2 root. Bursty signals (rainfall, forest fire) score highest — some pairs align perfectly, others scatter wildly. Periodic orbits score 0.0 (every pair identical).

short_long_ratio

Fraction of windows assigned to the 6 short roots (out of all 12). Binary-valued signals score 1.0 (exclusively short-root, coordinate-aligned); baker map prefers long roots (30-degree offset). Separates axial from diagonal pair correlations.

alignment_mean

Average alignment quality across all byte pairs. Constrained dynamics (Fibonacci word, logistic period-4) score highest; heavy-tailed distributions (rainfall) score lowest.

normalized_entropy

Uniformity of root usage across all 12 G2 roots.

kurtosis_angular

Fisher kurtosis of angular alignments (projections onto root directions). G2's 12 roots at uniform 30-degree spacing produce unimodal angular distributions for most data.

kurtosis_raw

Fisher kurtosis of raw alignment values (Euclidean distance to nearest root). G2's bimodal root lengths (1 vs sqrt(3)) make raw alignments bimodal — negative kurtosis.

kurtosis_differential

kurtosis_angular minus kurtosis_raw. Large for data where G2's specific root-length ratio matters; near zero when it doesn't. This is the key D1 metric: Thomson control (equal-length roots) has no bimodality, so kurtosis_raw is unimodal and the differential collapses. Evolved via ShinkaEvolve atlas v1.

diversity_ratio

Fraction of the 12 G2 roots actually used. High diversity means the signal's byte pairs explore all hexagonal directions; low means they are confined to a subset.

Atlas Rankings

alignment_mean
SourceDomainValue
Fibonacci Wordexotic1.3953
Logistic r=3.5 (Period-4)chaos1.3851
Random Telegraphexotic1.3775
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Constant 0xFFnoise0.0000
Rainfall (ORD Hourly)climate0.3067
Forest Fireexotic0.5149
alignment_std
SourceDomainValue
Rainfall (ORD Hourly)climate1.3721
Forest Fireexotic1.2745
Speech "Five"speech1.2155
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Constant 0xFFnoise0.0000
Logistic r=3.2 (Period-2)chaos0.0000
Thue-Morseexotic0.0000
kurtosis_angular
SourceDomainValue
Rainfall (ORD Hourly)climate611.0234
Accel Sitmotion294.9696
OpenBSD ELF x86-64binary111.6549
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Logistic r=3.5 (Period-4)chaos-2.0000
Morse Codewaveform-1.9994
Square Wavewaveform-1.9962
kurtosis_differential
SourceDomainValue
Accel Sitmotion4.6407
Rainfall (ORD Hourly)climate2.7264
Gaussian Collatz Orbitnumber_theory1.7508
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Pomeau-Mannevillechaos-5.7322
Geomagnetic ap Indexgeophysics-2.8922
Ambient Microseismgeophysics-1.0210
normalized_entropy
SourceDomainValue
Dice Rollsexotic0.8786
AES Encryptedbinary0.8777
Gzip (level 9)binary0.8777
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Constant 0xFFnoise-0.0000
Logistic r=3.2 (Period-2)chaos-0.0000
Morse Codewaveform0.1116
short_long_ratio
SourceDomainValue
Constant 0x00noise1.0000
Morse Codewaveform1.0000
Logistic r=3.2 (Period-2)chaos1.0000
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Baker Mapchaos0.2956
Tent Mapchaos0.2991
Bernoulli Shiftchaos0.3039

When It Lights Up

G2 is the complement to E8: where E8 examines 8-byte windows, G2 probes the shortest temporal structure (adjacent pairs). The kurtosis_differential metric exploits G2's unique two-length root structure (short:long = 1:sqrt(3)) — the only simple Lie algebra where root lengths differ. Thomson-6 control has equal-length directions, so the bimodality signal vanishes. The short_long_ratio metric remains unique to G2: no other geometry separates axial from diagonal pair correlations.

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