Hydrodynamic and symbolic models of hypercomputation
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Dynamical systems and physical models defined on idealized continuous phase spaces are known to exhibit non-computable phenomena, examples include the wave equation, recurrent neural networks, or Julia sets in holomorphic dynamics. Inspired by the works of Moore and Siegelmann, we show that ideal fluids, modeled by the Euler equations, are capable of simulating poly-time Turing machines with polynomial advice on compact three-dimensional domains. The complexity class that is shown to be computable by stationary ideal fluids is precisely the one considered by Siegelmann in her study of analog recurrent neural networks: the class P/poly. In the last part, we introduce a new class of symbolic systems, related to countably piecewise linear transformations of the unit square, that is capable of simulating Turing machines with advice in real-time, contrary to previously known models.
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