Self-sustaining autocatalytic networks within open-ended reaction systems
Molecular Networks
2015-01-26 v1
Abstract
Given any finite and closed chemical reaction system, it is possible to efficiently determine whether or not it contains a `self-sustaining and collectively autocatalytic' subset of reactions, and to find such subsets when they exist. However, for systems that are potentially open-ended (for example, when no prescribed upper bound is placed on the complexity or size/length of molecules types), the theory developed for the finite case breaks down. We investigate a number of subtleties that arise in such systems that are absent in the finite setting, and present several new results.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1501.05731,
title = {Self-sustaining autocatalytic networks within open-ended reaction systems},
author = {Mike Steel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.05731},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
17 pages, 5 figures