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The Complexity of Proving Chaoticity and the Church-Turing Thesis

Chaotic Dynamics 2010-09-30 v2 Computational Complexity General Physics

Abstract

Proving the chaoticity of some dynamical systems is equivalent to solving the hardest problems in mathematics. Conversely, one argues that it is not unconceivable that classical physical systems may "compute the hard or even the incomputable" by measuring observables which correspond to computationally hard or even incomputable problems.

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@article{arxiv.1006.2951,
  title  = {The Complexity of Proving Chaoticity and the Church-Turing Thesis},
  author = {Cristian S. Calude and Elena Calude and Karl Svozil},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.2951},
  year   = {2010}
}

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13 pages, new proof of the main theorem