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论宇宙结构的复杂性和信息量

On the complexity and the information content of cosmic structures

Franco Vazza

摘要:

宇宙结构的出现通常被认为是自然界中最复杂的现象之一。然而,这种复杂性从来没有被定量和客观地界定或衡量。在这项工作中,我们提出了一种方法来测量宇宙结构的信息含量,并量化它的复杂性,基于信息论。复杂的演化模式的出现进行了研究,与国家的最先进的宇宙学模拟形成星系团产生的数据流的统计符号分析。这种强大的方法使我们能够测量以统计方式预测能量场演化所需的信息量,并且它提供了一种简单的方法来量化宇宙气体何时,何地以及如何以复杂的方式表现。在星系团的外围区域发现了最复杂的行为,在那里,超音速气流在数千万年的时间里驱动着激波和巨大的能量波动。描述磁能的演化需要的比特数至少是其他能量场的两倍。当辐射冷却和星系形成的反馈被考虑在内时,宇宙气体的复杂程度总体上增加了一倍。在未来,宇宙信息理论可以显着增加我们对宇宙结构出现的理解,因为它代表了一个创新的框架,以简单而强大的方式设计和分析宇宙的复杂模拟。

英文摘要:

The emergence of cosmic structure is commonly considered one of the most complex phenomena in Nature. However, this complexity has never been defined nor measured in a quantitative and objective way. In this work we propose a method to measure the information content of cosmic structure and to quantify the complexity that emerges from it, based on Information Theory. The emergence of complex evolutionary patterns is studied with a statistical symbolic analysis of the datastream produced by state-of-the-art cosmological simulations of forming galaxy clusters. This powerful approach allows us to measure how many bits of information are necessary to predict the evolution of energy fields in a statistical way, and it offers a simple way to quantify when, where and how the cosmic gas behaves in complex ways. The most complex behaviors are found in the peripheral regions of galaxy clusters, where supersonic flows drive shocks and large energy fluctuations over a few tens of million years. Describing the evolution of magnetic energy requires at least a twice as large amount of bits than for the other energy fields. When radiative cooling and feedback from galaxy formation are considered, the cosmic gas is overall found to double its degree of complexity. In the future, Cosmic Information Theory can significantly increase our understanding of the emergence of cosmic structure as it represents an innovative framework to design and analyze complex simulations of the Universe in a simple, yet powerful way.

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