Endogenous Reachability Collapse (ERC) — Minimal Dynamical Model
A minimal dynamical system exploring whether loss of recoverability may emerge without removal of underlying states.
The model shows that a stable attractor can persist while becoming dynamically inaccessible due to an internal constraint that reshapes the effective accessibility boundary.
As trajectories evolve, a moving boundary in phase space determines whether recovery remains possible. Crossing this boundary results in loss of access to the attractor, despite its continued existence.
This suggests a separation between structural persistence and functional recoverability, governed by constraint-dependent accessibility.
This minimal model serves as a dynamical foundation for exploring accessibility-driven failure across more complex systems.
DOI (Zenodo)
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19175969View Code (GitHub)
https://github.com/jaimeojse-collab/endogenous-reachability-collapse-erc