Self-sustaining autocatalytic networks within open-ended reaction systems
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Self-sustaining autocatalytic networks within open-ended reaction systems
Given any finite and closed chemical reaction system, it is possible to efficiently determine whether or not it contains a ‘self-sustaining and collectively autocatalytic’ subset of reactions, and to find such subsets when they exist. However, for systems that are potentially open-ended (for example, when no prescribed upper bound is placed on the complexity or size/length of molecules types), ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Mathematical Chemistry
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0259-9791,1572-8897
DOI: 10.1007/s10910-015-0512-8