Out-of-Domain Stress Test for Temporal Braid Group Privilege Escalation Detection
For researchers in anomaly detection and topological data analysis, this provides a stress test demonstrating cross-domain robustness of a method, though the practical relevance to cloud security is indirect.
The paper tests a privilege escalation detection method, originally validated on synthetic cloud IAM graphs, on solar coronal magnetic field data without any parameter retuning, and finds that the method's discrimination holds in this unrelated domain.
In a companion paper, we prove that the Burau-Lyapunov exponent LE discriminates focused from dispersed privilege escalation ratchets in cloud IAM graphs, and that no abelian statistic can replicate this discrimination. To strengthen this claim beyond its synthetic validation corpus, we apply the identical pipeline, with zero parameter retuning, to solar coronal magnetic fields: a physical system with no connection to cloud identity and access management, whose binary eruptive/confined outcome is independently established by decades of astrophysical observation.