cs.NIOct 25, 2026

6G Reasoning Agent Societies: Composition, Scaling, and Consistency-Time Laws

Authors: Hatim Chergui, Carolina Fernández-Martínez, Mustapha Benjillali, Mehdi Bennis, Merouane Debbah

Organizations: i2CAT Foundation, Spain · INPT, Morocco · University of Oulu, Finland · Research Institute for Digital Future, Khalifa University, 127788 Abu Dhabi, UAE

Abstract

Emerging 6G control planes would compose Large Language Model (LLM) agents that exchange interpreted conclusions, so hallucinations can propagate even over error-free transport. Recent architectures audit each message locally against the sender's observation mask, but isolated audits miss collective behavior. Modeling the agent society as a cellular sheaf, we establish three laws valid on arbitrary topologies. First, the composition law: network-wide divergence exceeds the sum of per-agent audit scores by exactly their hidden total correlation. This blind spot masks up to 23% of joint divergence and, because the declared signal cancels in the cognitive signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), overstates it by 1.141.14,dB purely through topology; the resulting trust inflation preserves valid consensus states but slows convergence. Second, the scaling law: reconciliation decouples across metric counters, so the worst-connected dimension sets the pace. Consistency time grows for a society size nn as Ω(n2/d)Ω(n^{2/d}) on polynomial-growth topologies of degree dd, and paths breach a 11,s near-real-time budget at n∗=13n^\ast=13 agents, whereas expanders (Θ(1)Θ(1)) and radius-3 local audits (O(1)O(1), ≈300\approx300,ms) stay bounded. Third, the consistency-time law: the timing error from omitted correlations is one-sided and capped by the worst-measured link. These laws, validated on simulated topologies and deployed LLM societies, give provable worst-case latency ceilings for near-real-time operation.

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