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In this paper we study the family of two-state Totalistic Freezing Cellular Automata (TFCA) defined over the triangular and square grids with von Neumann neighborhoods. We say that a Cellular Automaton is Freezing and Totalistic if the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Eric Goles , Diego Maldonado , Pedro Montealegre , Nicolas Ollinger

We present a diagrammatic method to build up sophisticated cellular automata (CAs) as models of complex physical systems. The diagrams complement the mathematical approach to CA modeling, whose details are also presented here, and allow CAs…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2018-04-03 Vladimir García-Morales

The phase diagram of the coupled sine circle map lattice shows spatio-temporal intermittency of two distinct types: spatio-temporal intermittency of the directed percolation (DP) class, and spatial intermittency which does not belong to…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-07-06 Zahera Jabeen , Neelima Gupte

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…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-05-21 David Burguet , Ruxi Shi

We study the computational complexity of determining whether a cellular automaton is sensitive to initial conditions. We show that this problem is $\Pi^0_2$-complete in dimension 1 and $\Sigma^0_3$-complete in dimension 2 and higher. This…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Tom Favereau , Ville Salo

To respect physics and nature, cellular automata (CA) models of self-organisation, emergence, computation and logical universality should be isotropic, having equivalent dynamics in all directions. We present a novel paradigm, the iso-rule,…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2021-07-14 Andrew Wuensche , José Manuel Gómez Soto

Cellular automata (CA) models are widely used to simulate complex systems with emergent behaviors, but identifying hidden parameters that govern their dynamics remains a significant challenge. This study explores the use of Convolutional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Valery Ashu , Zhisong Liu , Heikki Haario , Andreas Rupp

Lattice geometry profoundly shapes physical phenomena such as subsystem symmetry and directed percolation (DP). Among various lattice geometries, hyperbolic lattices are characterized by constant negative curvature and non-Abelian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Xiang-You Huang , Jie-Yu Zhang , Peng Ye

We define and study a few properties of a class of random automata networks. While regular finite one-dimensional cellular automata are defined on periodic lattices, these automata networks, called randomized cellular automata, are defined…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2009-11-13 Nino Boccara

Any algorithm (in the sense of Gurevich's abstract-state-machine axiomatization of classical algorithms) operating over any arbitrary unordered domain can be simulated by a dynamic cellular automaton, that is, by a pattern-directed cellular…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Nachum Dershowitz , Evgenia Falkovich

Following work by Hochman and Meyerovitch on multidimensional SFT, we give computability-theoretic characterizations of the real numbers that can appear as the topological entropies of one-dimensional and two-dimensional cellular automata.

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-04-05 Pierre Guillon , Charalampos Zinoviadis

The cellular automaton (CA) pulsing model (arXiv:1806.06416) described the surprising phenomenon of spontaneous, sustained and robust rhythmic oscillations, pulsing dynamics, when random wiring is applied to a 2D `glider' rule running in a…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2021-03-02 Andrew Wuensche , Edward Coxon

Cellular automata and other discrete dynamical systems have long been studied as models of emergent complexity. Recently, neural cellular automata have been proposed as models to investigate the emerge of a more general artificial…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2025-07-28 Sanyam Jain , Stefano Nichele

We study the dynamics of (synchronous) one-dimensional cellular automata with cyclical boundary conditions that evolve according to the majority rule with radius $ r $. We introduce a notion that we term cell stability with which we express…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Yonatan Nakar , Dana Ron

Cellular automata provide a fascinating class of dynamical systems capable of diverse complex behavior. These include simplified models for many phenomena seen in nature. Among other things, they provide insight into self-organized…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-02-03 Michael Creutz

In this work we provide analytic results of infinite one-dimensional cellular automaton(CA). By realizing symbolic products, we investigate a subclass of infinite CA and prove analytically that within this subclass the only allowed…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2009-11-07 Ru-Fen Liu , Chia-Chu Chen

For non-uniform cellular automata (NUCA) with finite memory over an arbitrary universe with multiple local transition rules, we show that pointwise nilpotency, pointwise periodicity, and pointwise eventual periodicity properties are…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-10-04 Xuan Kien Phung

We introduce a new framework for constructing topological quantum memories, by recasting error recovery as a dynamical process on a field generating cellular automaton. We envisage quantum systems controlled by a classical hardware composed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Michael Herold , Earl T. Campbell , Jens Eisert , Michael J. Kastoryano

We study the set of strictly periodic points in surjective cellular automata, i.e., the set of those configurations which are temporally periodic for a given automaton but they not spatially periodic. This set turns out to be dense for…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-15 Alberto Dennunzio , Pietro Di Lena , Luciano Margara

In this paper, a different perspective of constructing the CA models is proposed. Its kernel, the Local Symmetric Distribution Principle, relates to some fundamental concepts in physics, which maybe raise a wide interest. With a rich…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2010-07-27 Zan Pan