How to lose at Monte Carlo: a simple dynamical system whose typical statistical behavior is non computable
Dynamical Systems
2019-11-04 v2 Computational Complexity
Abstract
We consider the simplest non-linear discrete dynamical systems, given by the logistic maps of the interval . We show that there exist real parameters for which almost every orbit of has the same statistical distribution in , but this limiting distribution is not Turing computable. In particular, the Monte Carlo method cannot be applied to study these dynamical systems.
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@article{arxiv.1910.09625,
title = {How to lose at Monte Carlo: a simple dynamical system whose typical statistical behavior is non computable},
author = {Cristobal Rojas and Michael Yampolsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.09625},
year = {2019}
}
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13 pages, 1 figure