English

Closed Systems of Invertible Maps

Rings and Algebras 2018-11-12 v2 Logic in Computer Science Logic

Abstract

We generalise clones, which are sets of functions f:AnAf:A^n \rightarrow A, to sets of mappings f:AnAmf:A^n \rightarrow A^m. We formalise this and develop language that we can use to speak about it. We then look at bijective mappings, which have connections to reversible computation, which is important for physical (e.g. quantum computation) as well as engineering (e.g. heat dissipation) reasons. We generalise Toffoli's seminal work on reversible computation to arbitrary arity logics. In particular, we show that some restrictions he found for reversible computation on alphabets of order 2 do not apply for odd order alphabets. For AA odd, we can create all invertible mappings from the Toffoli 1- and 2-gates, demonstrating that we can realise all reversible mappings from four generators. We discuss various forms of closure, corresponding to various systems of permitted manipulations. These correspond, amongst other things, to discussions about ancilla bits in quantum computation.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1512.06813,
  title  = {Closed Systems of Invertible Maps},
  author = {Tim Boykett},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.06813},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

Submitted to the Journal for Multiple Valued Logic and Soft Computing

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