Survivor Sets Under Iterated Constraint Operators - Reframing Emergence as Constraint Survival

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) 2026 Open access

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Authors: Hannah McCoy
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18522277
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Abstract

This work presents a unifying framework in which structure arises through repeated constraint rather than generative construction. Across several classical systems — including prime numbers, Collatz dynamics, Goldbach pairings, cellular automata, and the N-Queens problem — candidate configurations are iteratively filtered by admissibility conditions until a stable survivor set remains.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Complex Systems and Dynamics Cellular Automata and Applications Computability Logic AI Algorithms

Publication details

Journal / source
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Publication date
8 February 2026
Language
EN