Catalytic Reaction Sets, Decay, and the Preservation of Information
| dc.creator | Hordijk, Wim | |
| dc.creator | Fontanari, Jose F. | |
| dc.date | 2002-11-05 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T05:34:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T05:34:24Z | |
| dc.description | We study the ability to maintain information in a population of reacting polymers under the influence of decay, i.e., spontaneous breakdown of large polymers. At a certain decay rate, it becomes impossible to maintain a significant concentration of large polymers, while it is still possible to maintain sets of smaller polymers that can maintain the same amount of information. We use a genetic algorithm to evolve reaction sets to generate specific polymer distributions under the influence of decay. In these evolved reaction sets, the beginnings of hypercycle-type structures can be observed, which are believed to have been an important step toward the evolution of the first living cells. | |
| dc.description | 9 pages, 6 figures | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0211004 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0211004 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/80352 | |
| dc.subject | Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems | |
| dc.title | Catalytic Reaction Sets, Decay, and the Preservation of Information | |
| dc.type | text |