Prime Clocks

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Prime Clocks
المؤلفون: Fiske, Michael Stephen
المصدر: Proceedings of the 10th GI Conference. Autonomous Systems 2017. Reihe 10. Nr. 857. Fortschritt-Berichte VDI, 2017. ISBN 978-3-18-385710-4
سنة النشر: 2019
المجموعة: Computer Science
Mathematics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Computer Science - Computational Complexity, Mathematics - Group Theory, Mathematics - Number Theory
الوصف: Physical implementations of digital computers began in the latter half of the 1930's and were first constructed from various forms of logic gates. Based on the prime numbers, we introduce prime clocks and prime clock sums, where the clocks utilize time and act as computational primitives instead of gates. The prime clocks generate an infinite abelian group, where for each n, there is a finite subgroup S such that for each Boolean function f : {0, 1}^n --> {0, 1}, there exists a finite prime clock sum in S that can represent and compute f. A parallelizable algorithm, implemented with a finite prime clock sum, is provided that computes f. In contrast, the negation, conjunction, and disjunction operations generate a Boolean algebra. In terms of computation, Boolean circuits computed with logic gates NOT, AND, OR have a depth. This means that a completely parallel computation of Boolean functions is not possible with these gates. Overall, some new connections between number theory, Boolean functions and computation are established.
Comment: 13 pages
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1910.00777
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1910.00777
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv