Physics and complexity

DOI10.1098/RSTA.2009.0208zbMATH Open1192.82005arXiv0903.3572OpenAlexW2098475635WikidataQ35687987 ScholiaQ35687987MaRDI QIDQ3579096FDOQ3579096

Authors: David Sherrington 

Publication date: 5 August 2010

Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper is concerned with complex macroscopic behaviour arising in many-body systems through the combinations of competitive interactions and disorder, even with simple ingredients at the microscopic level. It attempts to indicate and illustrate the richness that has arisen, in conceptual understanding, in methodology and in application, across a large range of scientific disciplines, together with a hint of some of the further opportunities that remain to be tapped. In doing so it takes the perspective of physics and tries to show, albeit rather briefly, how physics has contributed and been stimulated.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.3572

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zbMATH Keywords

econophysicsneural networksNP-completenesscomplex systemsspin glasseshard optimization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity (68Q25) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to statistical mechanics (82-02) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Equilibrium statistical mechanics (82Bxx) Neural nets applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C32)

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