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Grammar of admissible mosaics for the two-dimensional spatiotemporal cat

Describe and characterize the admissible symbol mosaics for the two-dimensional spatiotemporal cat lattice field theory defined by (−Δ+μ^2)ϕ_z = n_z with ϕ_z ∈ [0,1), providing a complete grammar analogous to the known one-dimensional case.

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Background

Mosaics are symbolic encodings labeling lattice-site intervals that serve to organize and visualize spatiotemporal periodic states. A covering grammar accelerates enumeration by discarding inadmissible mosaics a priori.

While the one-dimensional temporal case has a known grammar, the admissible mosaics for the two-dimensional spatiotemporal cat remain to be established, limiting systematic orbit enumeration.

References

At the present stage of development, our spatiotemporal theory of chaos leaves a number of open problems that we plan to address in future publications: Describe the grammar of the spatiotemporal cat\ \refeq{catlattKG}, i.e., its admissible {mosaic}s. The grammar is known in one spatiotemporal\ dimension,\rf{LC21} but not in two.

A chaotic lattice field theory in two dimensions (2503.22972 - Cvitanović et al., 29 Mar 2025) in Subsection 'Open questions', Section 'Summary and open questions'