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Constructing Turing complete Euler flows in dimension 3

Robert Cardona, Eva Miranda, Daniel Peralta‐Salas, Francisco Presas

2021Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences43 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

4, 199 (1991)] asked if hydrodynamics is capable of performing computations. More recently, Tao launched a program based on the Turing completeness of the Euler equations to address the blow-up problem in the Navier-Stokes equations. In this direction, the undecidability of some physical systems has been studied in recent years, from the quantum gap problem to quantum-field theories. To the best of our knowledge, the existence of undecidable particle paths of three-dimensional fluid flows has remained an elusive open problem since Moore's works in the early 1990s. In this article, we construct a Turing complete stationary Euler flow on a Riemannian [Formula: see text] and speculate on its implications concerning Tao's approach to the blow-up problem in the Navier-Stokes equations.

Topics & Concepts

Undecidable problemEuler equationsTuring machineTuringPhysical systemEuler's formulaFlow (mathematics)Nonlinear systemInviscid flowMathematicsComputationComputer scienceClassical mechanicsPhysicsDecidabilityMathematical analysisDiscrete mathematicsQuantum mechanicsAlgorithmGeometryProgramming languageBlack Holes and Theoretical Physicsadvanced mathematical theoriesQuantum chaos and dynamical systems