2025/11/17 by Chandrasekhar Gokavarapu, Venkata Rao Kaviti, Gokavarapu, Chandrasekhar +5
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #16Y60 #20N15 #68Q85 #92C45 #92E20 #Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph) #Control and Stability of Dynamical Systems #FOS: Mathematics #FOS: Physical sciences #Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction #Origins and Evolution of Life #Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2511.16697
openalex publication_date 2025/11/17 · openalex created_date 2025/11/25 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Chemical systems are traditionally described by lists of species, reactions, and externally imposed kinetic laws, a framework that lacks an intrinsic algebraic structure governing how transformations compose. We propose an axiomatic reformulation in which a chemical system is modelled as a ternary Gamma semiring (TGS), where chemical states form an additive semigroup, mediators encode catalytic or environmental context, and mediated transformations are represented by a ternary operation. We show that the TGS axioms admit direct physical interpretations: distributivity corresponds to ideal, non-interfering parallel reactions, while associativity characterizes thermodynamic path-independence. Classical systems including Michaelis-Menten kinetics, global equilibrium, and allosteric regulation are recovered as different algebraic regimes, and we develop operational tests that quantify departures from the axioms through experimentally measurable indices. The resulting framework unifies equilibrium, kinetics, regulation, and chemical computation within a single algebraic language, offering new principles for the analysis and design of responsive or self-regulating materials.