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Mean dimension of continuous cellular automata

Dynamical Systems 2021-05-21 v1

Abstract

We investigate the mean dimension of a cellular automaton (CA for short) with a compact non-discrete space of states. A formula for the mean dimension is established for (near) strongly permutative, permutative algebraic and unit one-dimensional automata. In higher dimensions, a CA permutative algebraic or having a spaceship has infinite mean dimension. However, building on Meyerovitch's example, we give an example of algebraic surjective cellular automaton with positive finite mean dimension.

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@article{arxiv.2105.09708,
  title  = {Mean dimension of continuous cellular automata},
  author = {David Burguet and Ruxi Shi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.09708},
  year   = {2021}
}

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21 pages

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