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Bulking II: Classifications of Cellular Automata

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2010-09-27 v2

Abstract

This paper is the second part of a series of two papers dealing with bulking: a way to define quasi-order on cellular automata by comparing space-time diagrams up to rescaling. In the present paper, we introduce three notions of simulation between cellular automata and study the quasi-order structures induced by these simulation relations on the whole set of cellular automata. Various aspects of these quasi-orders are considered (induced equivalence relations, maximum elements, induced orders, etc) providing several formal tools allowing to classify cellular automata.

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@article{arxiv.1001.5471,
  title  = {Bulking II: Classifications of Cellular Automata},
  author = {Marianne Delorme and Jacques Mazoyer and Nicolas Ollinger and Guillaume Theyssier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.5471},
  year   = {2010}
}