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كما كتبه المؤلفون، بالإنجليزية arXiv:2605.08584v2

We propose a non-parametric approach to construct the statistical equation of state (EOS) continuously from the nuclear crust to the asymptotic-freedom regime. The combined requirement of supporting two-solar-mass neutron stars (NSs) with relatively small radii at low masses and of reaching the asymptotically soft pQCD boundary forces a squared-sound-speed ($$c_s^2$$) peak followed by extended softening, with $$c_s^2$$ returning toward $$1/3$$ near $$\sim\!30\,n_{\rm sat}$$. Correspondingly, the trace anomaly $$\Delta \equiv 1/3 - p/\epsilon$$ becomes positive beyond NS densities and approaches the pQCD limit from above. By quantifying the degree of this softening in the posterior, we find evidence for a hadron-quark transition in the cores of the most massive neutron stars. More importantly, this shows that the thermodynamic structure of a complete crust-to-pQCD statistical EOS naturally realizes a generalized quark-hadron crossover. The quark EOS above NS densities is therefore soft and non-perturbative, in contrast to the stiff quark EOS underlying the quark-star picture.