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Quantization causes waves:Smooth finitely computable functions are affine

Dynamical Systems 2015-02-09 v1 Formal Languages and Automata Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Given an automaton (a letter-to-letter transducer, a dynamical 1-Lipschitz system on the space Zp\mathbb Z_p of pp-adic integers) A\mathfrak A whose input and output alphabets are Fp={0,1,,p1}\mathbb F_p=\{0,1,\ldots,p-1\}, one visualizes word transformations performed by A\mathfrak A by a point set P(A)\mathbf P(\mathfrak A) in real plane R2\mathbb R^2. For a finite-state automaton A\mathfrak A, it is shown that once some points of P(A)\mathbf P(\mathfrak A) constitute a smooth (of a class C2C^2) curve in R2\mathbb R^2, the curve is a segment of a straight line with a rational slope; and there are only finitely many straight lines whose segments are in P(A)\mathbf{P}(\mathfrak A). Moreover, when identifying P(A)\mathbf P(\mathfrak A) with a subset of a 2-dimensional torus T2R3\mathbb T^2\subset\mathbb R^3 (under a natural mapping of the real unit square [0,1]2[0,1]^2 onto T2\mathbb T^2) the smooth curves from P(A)\mathbf P(\mathfrak A) constitute a collection of torus windings. In cylindrical coordinates either of the windings can be ascribed to a complex-valued function ψ(x)=ei(Ax2πB(t))\psi(x)=e^{i(Ax-2\pi B(t))} (xR)(x\in\mathbb R) for suitable rational A,B(t)A,B(t). Since ψ(x)\psi(x) is a standard expression for a matter wave in quantum theory (where B(t)=tB(t0)B(t)=tB(t_0)), and since transducers can be regarded as a mathematical formalization for causal discrete systems, the paper might serve as a mathematical reasoning why wave phenomena are inherent in quantum systems: This is because of causality principle and the discreteness of matter.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1502.01920,
  title  = {Quantization causes waves:Smooth finitely computable functions are affine},
  author = {Vladimir Anashin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.01920},
  year   = {2015}
}
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