Appendix D: Notation and Conventions

Consistent with the Geometric Series. Where domain-specific notation extends the parent conventions, the extension is marked with (GC).


Manifolds and Spaces

Symbol Meaning Introduced
$M$ Communication manifold $M = S \times P \times C$ Ch. 3
$S$ Signal manifold (acoustic, written, gestural) Ch. 3
$P$ Pragmatic manifold (intention, context, social relation) Ch. 3
$C$ Content manifold (semantic meaning) Ch. 3
$\mathbb{B}^d_c$ Poincare ball of dimension $d$, curvature $-c$ Ch. 4, 5
$\text{SPD}(n)$ Manifold of $n \times n$ symmetric positive-definite matrices Ch. 4, 8
$T_pM$ Tangent space at $p \in M$ App. A
$\mathcal{E}$ Total space of the communication fiber bundle Ch. 13
$\mathcal{B}$ Base space (content manifold) of the fiber bundle Ch. 13
$F$ Typical fiber (surface realisations) Ch. 13

Metrics and Distances

Symbol Meaning Introduced
$g$ Riemannian metric on $M$ Ch. 3
$g_{ij}$ Metric components in local coordinates Ch. 3
$d(p, q)$ Geodesic distance between $p$ and $q$ Ch. 3
$d_{\mathbb{B}}(x, y)$ Hyperbolic distance in the Poincare ball Ch. 5
$d_{LE}(S_1, S_2)$ Log-Euclidean distance on SPD$(n)$ Ch. 4
$d_B$ Bottleneck distance between persistence diagrams Ch. 6

Groups and Symmetry

Symbol Meaning Introduced
$G$ Communication gauge group $G = T \times R \times F$ Ch. 3
$T$ Translation group (relabeling across languages) Ch. 3
$R$ Re-description group (paraphrase within a language) Ch. 3
$F$ Format group (spoken, written, signed) Ch. 3
$D_4$ Dihedral group of order 8 (Hohfeldian symmetry) Ch. 13
$r$ Rotation generator of $D_4$ (normative state transition) Ch. 13
$s$ Reflection generator of $D_4$ (correlative symmetry) Ch. 13
$U(1)_H$ Harm conservation gauge group Ch. 13

Maps and Operations

Symbol Meaning Introduced
$\exp^c_x(v)$ Exponential map on $\mathbb{B}^d_c$ Ch. 5
$\log^c_x(y)$ Logarithmic map on $\mathbb{B}^d_c$ Ch. 5
$\oplus_c$ Mobius addition on $\mathbb{B}^d_c$ Ch. 5
$\pi$ Bundle projection $\pi: \mathcal{E} \to \mathcal{B}$ Ch. 13
$\lambda^c_x$ Conformal factor $\frac{2}{1 - c\|x\|^2}$ Ch. 5
$\Gamma^k_{ij}$ Christoffel symbols App. A

Topological Invariants

Symbol Meaning Introduced
$H_k$ $k$-th homology group Ch. 6
$H_0$ Connected components (harmonic hierarchy) Ch. 6
$H_1$ Loops (periodicity) Ch. 6
$\text{VR}(X, \varepsilon)$ Vietoris-Rips complex at scale $\varepsilon$ Ch. 6
$\tau$ Time delay for Takens embedding Ch. 6
$d$ Embedding dimension for Takens embedding Ch. 6

Feature Vectors (GC)

Symbol Dimension Meaning Introduced
SPD features 136 Upper triangle of $\log(\Sigma)$, $\Sigma \in \text{SPD}(16)$ Ch. 4, 8
Trajectory features 4 Path length, geodesic distance, deviation, steps Ch. 4, 8
TDA features 16 8 statistics per homology dimension ($H_0$, $H_1$) Ch. 4, 6
Combined vector 156 SPD + trajectory + TDA Ch. 4

Empirical Quantities (GC)

Symbol Meaning Value Source
DRI Decoder Robustness Index Ch. 7
BIP Bond Invariance Principle Ch. 3, 11
ECE Expected Calibration Error Ch. 14
$\sigma$ Fisher-combined significance Various Ch. 14

Conventions