Why Stellar Sequences Turn Over: Fixed Points, Instability, and Equation-of-State Universality

arXiv:2603.26973 · astro-ph.HE, gr-qc, nucl-th · Submitted 2026-03-27 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.HE, gr-qc, nucl-th

Submitted: 2026-03-27

Updated: 2026-10-09

Terminology

• Core — 63× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Phase Transition — 13× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Phase Transitions — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Initial Data — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Lyapunov function — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Elias — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Homogeneity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Model-Agnostic — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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