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Little Red Dots as Interface-Organized Structures in an Overlap-Growth Early Universe

Authors: Lampton, Brian Doyle;

Little Red Dots as Interface-Organized Structures in an Overlap-Growth Early Universe

Abstract

This paper presents a conservative, ontology-neutral framework for interpreting the James Webb Space Telescope population known as Little Red Dots (LRDs). These compact, high-redshift sources exhibit optical and near-infrared dominance, suppressed X-ray and radio emission, and a sharply limited abundance peaking at redshifts z ~ 6–9, challenging standard hierarchical galaxy formation and unobscured AGN models. The framework interprets LRDs as transient, interface-organized radiative nodes arising within a growing overlap region of extended domains. As the overlap volume decreases toward early times, admissibility constraints tighten and interface effects dominate, generating strong coherence gradients that drive compactification and frequency-selective radiative transmission favoring optical and near-infrared escape. The model reproduces LRD compactness, spectral suppression, and epoch limitation without modifying global metric expansion and yields falsifiable predictions including redshift-dependent size evolution, systematic spectral transitions, enhanced clustering or alignment, net polarization, and transition objects bridging X-ray-quiet LRDs and X-ray-bright active galactic nuclei.

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polarization,clustering,alignment,redshift evolution,interface-dominated regime,phase field,mode filtering,transient cosmic structures,effective multiverse models, little red dots,jwst,high-redshift universe,early universe cosmology,galaxy formation,compact galaxies,infrared astronomy,optical emission,x-ray suppression,radio suppression, active galactic nuclei,agn transitions,radiative transfer,spectral energy distribution,interface-driven organization,overlap-growth model,admissibility constraints,constraint density,coherence gradients

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