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Turing complete Navier-Stokes steady states via cosymplectic geometry (2507.07696v1)
Published 10 Jul 2025 in math.DG, cs.CC, math.AP, math.DS, and math.SG
Abstract: 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.