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A decidability result for the halting problem of cellular automata in the pentagrid

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2018-12-11 v1 Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the halting problem for deterministic cellula automata in the pentagrid. We prove that the problem is decidable when the cellular automaton starts its computation from a finite configuration and when it has at most two states, one of them being a quiescent state.

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@article{arxiv.1812.03882,
  title  = {A decidability result for the halting problem of cellular automata in the pentagrid},
  author = {Maurice Margenstern},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.03882},
  year   = {2018}
}

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18 pages, 10 figures