English

Graph and wreath products of cellular automata

Group Theory 2025-05-06 v2 Formal Languages and Automata Theory Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We prove that the set of subgroups of the automorphism group of a two-sided full shift is closed under countable graph products. We introduce the notion of a group action without AA-cancellation (for an abelian group AA), and show that when AA is a finite abelian group and GG is a group of cellular automata whose action does not have AA-cancellation, the wreath product AGA \wr G embeds in the automorphism group of a full shift. We show that all free abelian groups and free groups admit such cellular automata actions. In the one-sided case, we prove variants of these results with reasonable alphabet blow-ups.

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@article{arxiv.2012.10186,
  title  = {Graph and wreath products of cellular automata},
  author = {Ville Salo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.10186},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

31 pages; lots of clarifications and reviewer comments incorporated; published in IJAC