Pinched Multi Affine Geometry and Confinement: Describing the Yang-Mills Mass Gap

Abstract: We introduce a multi affine geometric framework in which spacetime curvature relaxes non-instantaneously, subject to a fundamental Planck-scale limit on volumetric contraction. This pinched geometry is shown to localize high-energy distributions, leading to effective constraints on curvature that manifest as a discrete energy gap. Our analysis explores how this limiting curvature dispersion rate not only yields an intuitive explanation of the Yang-Mills mass gap by enforcing a finite tension between non-Abelian color sources. In parallel, we connect these results to an information-geometric viewpoint, demonstrating how the Fisher-Rao curvature quantifies localization pinning in both classical and quantum settings. The resulting picture suggests that quantized excitations and confinement emerge naturally once one accounts for a maximum relaxation speed of curved manifolds. We conclude by outlining how these ideas could be tested through lattice gauge theory comparisons and by examining low-energy glueball spectra, shedding light on a potential geometric unification of gravitational and quantum phenomena.