Quantization causes waves: Smooth finitely computable functions are affine

Abstract

Every automaton (a letter-to-letter transducer) A whose both input and output alphabets are F _p = {0, 1,..., p - 1} produces a 1-Lipschitz map f _A from the space Z _p of p-adic integers to Z _p . The map fA can naturally be plotted in a unit real square I² ⊂ R²: To an m-letter non-empty word v = γ _m-1γ _m-2... γ0 there corresponds a number 0.v ∈ R with base-p expansion 0.γ _m-1γ _m-2... γ0; so to every m-letter input word w = α _m-1α _m-2 ··· α0 of A and to the respective m-letter output word a(w) = β _m-1β _m-2 ··· β0 of A there corresponds a point (0.w; 0.a(w)) ∈ R². Denote P(A) a closure of the point set (0.w; 0.a(w)) where w ranges over all non-empty words.We prove that once some points of P(A) constitute a C ²-smooth curve in R², the curve is a segment of a straight line with a rational slope. Moreover, when identifying P(A) with a subset of a 2-dimensional torus T² ∈ R³, the smooth curves from P(A) constitute a collection of torus windings which can be ascribed to complex-valued functions ψ(x, t) = e ^i(Ax-2πBt) (x, t ∈ R), i.e., to matter waves. As automata are causal discrete systems, the main result may serve a mathematical reasoning why wave phenomena are inherent in quantum systems: This is just because of causality principle and discreteness of matter.