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The Institute publishes scholarly print volumes through trade distribution. Two product lines: an inaugural authored collection, and Persistence, the Institute's journal, which publishes online first; the annual print edition carries the volume's articles it can include.

Cover of Foundations of the Existence Threshold: The Scholarly Collection

Inaugural volume

Foundations of the Existence Threshold

The Scholarly Collection

Nathan M. Thornhill

This volume consolidates the primary theoretical framework for the Existence Threshold, a unified approach to information theory, dimensional geometry, and complexity science. Four preprints, reviewed by the ICSAC panel and previously released independently, are joined by three original bridge essays and front matter that trace the framework's development from binary discrete systems through dimensional embedding, the Dimensional Loss Theorem, and dynamic Phi.

The collection is intended as a working reference for researchers modelling emergent complexity, structural information metrics, and the bounds of physical information processing.

Pages
100
Trim
7 × 10 trade paperback
Price
$28.99 USD
ISBN (Print)
979-8-9958925-0-2
ISBN (EPUB)
979-8-9958925-1-9
LCCN
2026941912
Publisher
Institute for Complexity Science and Advanced Computing LLC
Ships
06/01/2026

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Cover of Persistence — A Transdisciplinary Journal, Volume 1, Number 1

Recurring volume

Persistence

A Transdisciplinary Journal · Volume 1, Number 1

Persistence is the Institute's open-review journal. Articles publish online first, continuously, at /journal; this trade paperback and Kindle edition is the annual print edition of the volume, gathering the year's articles. The full curation record — panel reviews, RQC audit, and curation decision — remains free online at each accepted paper's permanent URL. The annual collection is the journal's printed product.

Authors retain copyright on their own work and pay nothing — no submission fees, no article-processing charges. Inclusion is drawn from the open-review acceptance pool; no separate submission path is needed.

There are no free, reduced-price, draft, or not-for-resale author copies of any edition; copies are sold here and at the major retailers, and credential holders will receive a member discount. Authors of the papers an edition will carry hear from the Institute 60 to 120 days before its publication date. How the annual works: /journal.

Format
Trade paperback & ebook
Trim
7 × 10
Frequency
Annual
First edition
Volume 1, Number 1 · May 2027
ISSN
Pending registration
Status
Open submissions

Open submissions feed Persistence. See how to submit for the full submission process, or read more about the journal and review model.