Topological reversibility and causality in feed-forward networks

Details Topological reversibility and causality in feed-forward networks Topological reversibility and causality in feed-forward networks

2010-07-12

arxiv.org/abs/1007.1829v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

9 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

Systems whose organization displays causal asymmetry constraints, from evolutionary trees to river basins or transport networks, can be often described in terms of directed paths (causal flows) on a discrete state space. Such a set of paths defines a feed-forward, acyclic network. A key problem associated with these systems involves characterizing their intrinsic degree of path reversibility: given an end node in the graph, what is the uncertainty of recovering the process backwards until the origin? Here we propose a novel concept, \textit{topological reversibility}, which rigorously weigths such uncertainty in path dependency quantified as the minimum amount of information required to successfully revert a causal path. Within the proposed framework we also analytically characterize limit cases for both topologically reversible and maximally entropic structures. The relevance of these measures within the context of evolutionary dynamics is highlighted.

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