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Turing complete Navier-Stokes steady states via cosymplectic geometry

Published: July 10, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2507.07696v1

By: Søren Dyhr , Ángel González-Prieto , Eva Miranda and more

Potential Business Impact:

Makes math equations compute like computers.

In this article, we construct stationary solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations on certain Riemannian $3$-manifolds that exhibit Turing completeness, in the sense that they are capable of performing universal computation. This universality arises on manifolds admitting nonvanishing harmonic 1-forms, thus showing that computational universality is not obstructed by viscosity, provided the underlying geometry satisfies a mild cohomological condition. The proof makes use of a correspondence between nonvanishing harmonic $1$-forms and cosymplectic geometry, which extends the classical correspondence between Beltrami fields and Reeb flows on contact manifolds.

Page Count
11 pages

Category
Mathematics:
Differential Geometry