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Godel Diffeomorphisms

Dynamical Systems 2020-09-22 v2 Logic

Abstract

A basic problem in smooth dynamics is determining if a system can be distinguished from its inverse, i.e., whether a smooth diffeomorphism TT is isomorphic to T1T^{-1}. We show that this problem is sufficiently general that asking it for particular choices of TT is equivalent to the validity of well-known number theoretic conjectures including the Riemann Hypothesis and Goldbach's conjecture. Further one can produce computable diffeomorphisms TT such that the question of whether TT is isomorphic to T1T^{-1} is independent of ZFC.

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@article{arxiv.2009.06735,
  title  = {Godel Diffeomorphisms},
  author = {Matthew Foreman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.06735},
  year   = {2020}
}