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Media Theory: Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics / Edition 1

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Media Theory: Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics / Edition 1
Media Theory: Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics / Edition 1

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The focus of this book is a mathematical structure modeling a physical or biological system that can be in any of a number of ‘states. ’ Each state is characterized by a set of binary features, and difiers from some other nei- bor state or states by just one of those features. In some situations, what distinguishes a state S from a neighbor state T is that S has a particular f- ture that T does not have. A familiar example is a partial solution of a jigsaw puzzle, with adjoining pieces. Such a state can be transformed into another state, that is, another partial solution or the final solution, just by adding a single adjoining piece. This is the first example discussed in Chapter 1. In other situations, the difierence between a state S and a neighbor state T may reside in their location in a space, as in our second example, in which in which S and T are regions located on different sides of some common border. We formalize the mathematical structure as a semigroup of ‘messages’ transforming states into other states. Each of these messages is produced by the concatenation of elementary transformations called ‘tokens (of infor- tion). ’ The structure is specified by two constraining axioms. One states that any state can be produced from any other state by an appropriate kind of message. The other axiom guarantees that such a production of states from other states satisfies a consistency requirement.

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