@article{atheoryofconditionalcollapseunderlowrank, title = {A Theory of Conditional Collapse under Low-Rank Weight-Space Ablations: I. The Single-Block Theory and Synthetic Validation}, author = {Abdallah Khemais}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2608.03620}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.03620}, }