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On computing the Lyapunov exponents of reversible cellular automata

Dynamical Systems 2020-01-28 v1 Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases

Abstract

We consider the problem of computing the Lyapunov exponents of reversible cellular automata (CA). We show that the class of reversible CA with right Lyapunov exponent 22 cannot be separated algorithmically from the class of reversible CA whose right Lyapunov exponents are at most 2δ2-\delta for some absolute constant δ>0\delta>0. Therefore there is no algorithm that, given as an input a description of an arbitrary reversible CA FF and a positive rational number ϵ>0\epsilon>0, outputs the Lyapunov exponents of FF with accuracy ϵ\epsilon. We also compute the average Lyapunov exponents (with respect to the uniform measure) of the CA that perform multiplication by pp in base pqpq for coprime p,q>1p,q>1.

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@article{arxiv.2001.09675,
  title  = {On computing the Lyapunov exponents of reversible cellular automata},
  author = {Johan Kopra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.09675},
  year   = {2020}
}

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19 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Natural Computing