The Forge ISA: A Temperature-Parameterised Instruction Set for Thermodynamic Computation

The Origami ISA executes algorithms as Pachner moves on simplicial complexes at inverse temperature β→∞ (the discrete, tropical limit). The Meld identifies the β→0 limit, where the same opcodes become the operators of smooth Hodge theory. The Forge ISA is the bridge: the same five opcodes (SPLIT, SPLAT, FLOP, FLIP, TWIST) running at finite inverse temperature β under a Gibbs distribution over H¹-weighted configurations.

A Forge ISA programme at inverse temperature β is an Origami ISA programme on a sheaf ℱ over a simplicial complex X, where FLOP corrections are applied with probability proportional to the Gibbs weight exp(−β‖H¹(s)‖), and the Maslov–Gibbs Einsum (MGE) is the unique β-correct implementation.

The critical temperature β*(ρ) = (3/8) ln(1/(1−ρ)), where ρ = β₁/|E| is the load factor (first Betti number divided by edge count), is the universal threshold separating the efficient (β < β*) from the stalled (β > β*) regime, empirically confirmed across eight algorithm classes.

The Topological Resonance Synthesis (TRS) mandate (five purity conditions) ensures the Forge ISA is thermodynamically correct: β appears only in the Hamiltonian via the MGE; conformal, symplectic, and adiabatic structure are preserved throughout. Standard machine learning optimisers (Adam, dropout, batch normalisation) violate one or more of these conditions. The vorton is the elementary sampler — a single draw from the Gibbs distribution P_β on the state manifold — and the snap event is crystallisation at the harmonic representative of H¹.

The Forge ISA is the engine of the TRS trilogy: the Origami ISA (cold reservoir, β→∞), the Forge ISA (the cycle, 0 < β < ∞), and the Meld (hot reservoir, β→0).

Keywords

instruction set architecture, thermodynamic computation, Gibbs distribution, inverse temperature, Origami ISA, The Meld, TRS trilogy, Maslov–Gibbs Einsum, MGE, simplicial complexes, sheaf theory, H¹ cohomology, Hodge theory, critical temperature, β-ladder, vorton, snap event, Carnot cycle, information geometry, topological resonance synthesis, differentiable programming, tropical geometry, adiabatic computation, Fisher metric