Equation 15 · Part 1 · The Hardest Unsolved Problems in AI Agent Architecture
Symbol n
What this part means
the number of agents.
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n is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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Where the article explains it
Multi-agent coordination cost grows faster than the group For n agents that each need a channel to every other agent, the number of pairwise links a fully connected coordination topology requires is = , which grows quadratically in n even before accounting for the content sent over each link.
The passage around this formula
which grows quadratically in n even before accounting for the content sent over each link. That is a modeling assumption, not a law of nature — a system that routes all communication through a single orchestrator instead of a full mesh pays a linear cost in links, at the price of a central bottleneck and a single point of…
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