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Computational Universality and 1/f Noise in Elementary Cellular Automata

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases 2013-07-19 v1 Other Computer Science

Abstract

It is speculated that there is a relationship between 1/f noise and computational universality in cellular automata. We use genetic algorithms to search for one-dimensional and two-state, five-neighbor cellular automata which have 1/f-type spectrum. A power spectrum is calculated from the evolution starting from a random initial configuration. The fitness is estimated from the power spectrum in consideration of the similarity to 1/f-type spectrum. The result shows that the rule with the highest average fitness has a propagating structure like other computationally universal cellular automata, although computational universality of the rule has not been proved yet.

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@article{arxiv.1307.4938,
  title  = {Computational Universality and 1/f Noise in Elementary Cellular Automata},
  author = {Shigeru Ninagawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.4938},
  year   = {2013}
}