2 papers
physics.soc-ph2026
Crossing the Functional Desert: Cascade-Driven Assembly and Feasibility Transitions in Early Life
Galen J. Wilkerson
The origin of life poses a problem of combinatorial feasibility: How can temporally supported functional organization arise in exponentially branching assembly spaces when unguided…
physics.soc-ph2025
Functional Percolation: Criticality of Form and Function
Galen J. Wilkerson
Understanding how network structure constrains and enables information processing is a central problem in the statistical mechanics of interacting systems. Here we study random net…