What does this research mean for the field?

Historical dynamics, encompassing events, agents, institutions, narratives, and evidence, can be mathematically formalized as an operator-algebraic modular Hamiltonian (K_history) that reproduces empirical patterns such as the Richardson power-law of war and Turchin's cliodynamic cycles. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.METHODOLOGICAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.ESTABLISHES_NEW_DIRECTION.

What question did this study set out to answer?

This study aims to explore the historical dynamics of wars and societal structures using mathematical models.

May 21, 2026Open Access

ITU Tier 1+ #37: History (Kₕistory)

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This study aims to explore the historical dynamics of wars and societal structures using mathematical models.
Utilized Richardson power-law and Turchin's cliodynamics for modeling and simulation.
Conducted a synthetic analysis of 1000 wars to derive logarithmic patterns.
Simulated 800 years of demographic-structural models to identify historical peaks and cycles.
Identified a log-binned slope of -0.5 in the Richardson power-law corresponding to alpha=1.5.
Produced four demographic peaks with an average cycle of 165 years, within the anticipated range.
Established ten falsifiable predictions with varying probabilities for future historical events.

Abstract

Tier 1+ Pass-1. 5 paper 37 of 45. ITU-derived history on event + agent + institution + narrative + evidence. Richardson power-law of war + Turchin cliodynamics. Defines Kₕistory = -log ρₕistory as the operator-algebraic modular Hamiltonian on Hₑvent ⊗ Hₐgent ⊗ Hᵢnstitution ⊗ Hₙarrative ⊗ Hₑvidence. Kₕistory inherits from KQG via the CLPW 2023 type II crossed-product specialised to this scale. Numerical results. Richardson 1948 power-law: synthetic N=1000 wars, log-binned slope -0. 5 corresponds to alpha=1. 5 (Cirillo-Taleb 2016 Pareto). Turchin cliodynamics simplified P (t) +E (t) demographic-structural model, 800 yr simulation -> 4 peaks, avg cycle = 165 yr (within Turchin 150-300 range). Topics covered. Herodotus 5c BCE, Sima Qian Shiji 94 BCE, Ibn Khaldun 1377 Muqaddimah, Gibbon 1776-89, Annales Bloch-Febvre 1929 + Braudel 1949 longue duree, Hayden White Metahistory 1973, Reich Lab 2018 + 2024 Nature Indo-Anatolian PIE Yamnaya 3300 BCE, Pääbo Nobel 2022 Neanderthal+Denisovan 2010, Turchin 2003/2007 cliodynamics + SESHAT + 2010 predicted 2020s US instability, Pinker 2011 vs Cirillo-Taleb 2016 Pareto alpha=0. 5, Claude/GPT-4 historical analysis 2023-24, Vesuvius Challenge 2024. 2. 5 700K Herculaneum papyri Bert Robinson+Youssef Nader+Luke Farritor, Libby 1949 C-14 + IntCal20 2020, Russia-Ukraine 2022. 2. 24 + Hamas 2023. 10. 7 + Gaza + Trump 2024. 11. 5 + Syria Assad fall 2024. 12. 8, Wikipedia 23M articles 320 languages 1. 7B visitors/mo, Internet Archive 1996 866B pages, COVID 7M+ official + 18-28M excess. 45-vertex polytope #37 top couplings: #28 Neuro (0. 92), #33 Lang (0. 92), #34 Music (0. 85), #35 Law (0. 85), #36 Edu (0. 85), #38 Anthro (0. 85). Ten falsifiable predictions: Pₐvg=0. 65, S/M/W=2/6/2: Vesuvius complete decoding 2027 (0. 70), Reich Lab Indo-Anatolian PIE consensus 2027 (0. 65), LLM-historian standard tool 2026 (0. 80), Cliodynamics Turchin 2030s US prediction validated (0. 50). Pass-2 roadmap: ~1. 6M: History Bayesian event analytics SESHAT+OWID+ancient DNA (500K) + Lean Mathlib (200K) + AI+history Anthropic+OpenAI+Reich+Vesuvius (900K). Copyright © 2026 Munehiro Terada / Roboken. Licensed under CC-BY-4. 0.

ITU Tier 1+ #37: History (Kₕistory)

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