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Computer Science > Information Theory

Title: Fractal time scale-free agnostic messaging: amplitude modulation of carriers given by the Weierstrass function's components

Abstract: In the context of interstellar communication, it is not known beforehand if the receiver of a given signal would be a plant, an insect, or even life forms unknown to terrestrial scientists. Regardless of the situation, the message time scale could be too fast or too slow and those beings would probably never decode it. Therefore, it is of interest to devise a way to encode messages agnostic of time scale. Fractal messaging would allow one to do this due to their structural self-similarity and, sometimes, scale invariance. By starting from a spatial embedding rationale, a framework is developed for a time scale-free messaging alternative. When one considers a time-agnostic framework for message transmission, it would be interesting to encode a message such that it could be decoded along several spatio-temporal scales. This way, the core idea of the framework hereby proposed is to encode a binary message as waves along infinitely many (power-like distributed) frequencies and amplitudes, transmit such message, and then decode and reproduce it. To do so, the components of the Weierstrass function, a known fractal, are used as the carriers of the message. Each component will have its amplitude modulated to embed the binary stream, allowing for a time-agnostic approach to messaging.
Subjects: Information Theory (cs.IT)
Cite as: arXiv:2403.06633 [cs.IT]
  (or arXiv:2403.06633v1 [cs.IT] for this version)

Submission history

From: Hector Zenil [view email]
[v1] Mon, 11 Mar 2024 11:45:32 GMT (618kb,D)
[v2] Thu, 14 Mar 2024 10:45:49 GMT (618kb,D)
[v3] Wed, 20 Mar 2024 21:58:54 GMT (671kb,D)
[v4] Wed, 27 Mar 2024 09:03:49 GMT (1901kb,D)
[v5] Mon, 1 Apr 2024 22:10:27 GMT (1902kb,D)

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