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This article presents a new characterization of controllability and regional controllability of Deterministic Cellular Automata (CA for short). It focuses on analyzing these problems within the framework of control theory, which have been…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Sara Dridi

This paper explores the algebraic conditions under which a cellular automaton with a non-linear local rule exhibits surjectivity and reversibility. We also analyze the role of permutivity as a key factor influencing these properties and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Firas Ben Ramdhane , Alberto Dennunzio , Luciano Margara , Giuliamaria Menara

In this paper we present two interesting properties of stochastic cellular automata that can be helpful in analyzing the dynamical behavior of such automata. The first property allows for calculating cell-wise probability distributions over…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-20 Witold Bołt , Jan M. Baetens , Bernard DeBaets

Number-conserving cellular automata (NCCA) are particularly interesting, both because of their natural appearance as models of real systems, and because of the strong restrictions that number-conservation implies. Here we extend the…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2007-05-23 Andres Moreira

Let $X=S^G$ where $G$ is a countable group and $S$ is a finite set. A cellular automaton (CA) is an endomorphism $T : X \to X$ (continuous, commuting with the action of $G$). Shereshevsky (1993) proved that for $G=Z^d$ with $d>1$ no CA can…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Tom Meyerovitch

Both cellular automata (CA) and lattice-gas automata (LG) provide finite algorithmic presentations for certain classes of infinite dynamical systems studied by symbolic dynamics; it is customary to use the term `cellular automaton' or…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2007-09-11 Tommaso Toffoli , Silvio Capobianco , Patrizia Mentrasti

In this paper, we formalize precisely the sense in which the application of cellular automaton to partial configuration is a natural extension of its local transition function through the categorical notion of Kan extension. In fact, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Alexandre Fernandez , Luidnel Maignan , Antoine Spicher

Gauge symmetries play a fundamental role in Physics, as they provide a mathematical justification for the fundamental forces. Usually, one starts from a non-interactive theory which governs `matter', and features a global symmetry. One then…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2022-01-25 Pablo Arrighi , Marin Costes , Nathanaël Eon

We give new sufficient ergodicity conditions for two-state probabilistic cellular automata (PCA) of any dimension and any radius. The proof of this result is based on an extended version of the duality concept. Under these assumptions, in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-06-28 Cristian Coletti , Pierre Tisseur

Diam-mean equicontinuity is a dynamical property that has been of use in the study of non-periodic order. Using some type of "local" skew product between a shift and an odometer looking cellular automaton (CA), we will show there exists an…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Luguis de los Santos Baños , Felipe García-Ramos

Cellular automata, CA for short are continuous maps defined on the set of configurations over a finite alphabet A that commutes with the shift. They are characterized by the existence of local function which determine by local behavior the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-04-30 Rezki Chemlal

The paper proposes a simple formalism for dealing with deterministic, non-deterministic and stochastic cellular automata in a unifying and composable manner. Armed with this formalism, we extend the notion of intrinsic simulation between…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-15 Pablo Arrighi , Nicolas Schabanel , Guillaume Theyssier

Layered Cellular Automata (LCA) extends the concept of traditional cellular automata (CA) to model complex systems and phenomena. In LCA, each cell's next state is determined by the interaction of two layers of computation, allowing for…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2023-08-15 Abhishek Dalai

In this paper, we exhibit a strong relation between the sand automata configuration space and the cellular automata configuration space. This relation induces a compact topology for sand automata, and a new context in which sand automata…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Alberto Dennunzio , Pierre Guillon , Benoît Masson

In this dissertation, we study two of the global properties of 1-dimensional cellular automata (CAs) under periodic boundary condition, namely, reversibility and randomness. To address reversibility of finite CAs, we develop a mathematical…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Kamalika Bhattacharjee

This paper is about topological dynamics of cellular automata on finitely generated groups. We tackle the problem of determining for which group sensitivity to initial conditions is equivalent to the absence of equicontinuity points…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Jade Angela Hope Audouard , Guillaume Theyssier

In this article, we discuss the family of cellular automata generated by so-called idempotent cellular automata (CA G such that G^2 = G) on the full shift. We prove a characterization of products of idempotent CA, and show examples of CA…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-06-05 Ville Salo

This paper introduces a new formalism for quantum cellular automata (QCAs), based on evolving tensor products of qubits using local unitary operators. It subsequently uses this formalism to analyze and validate several conjectures, stemming…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-03 Ruhi Shah , Jonathan Gorard

We propose and discuss two variants of kinetic particle models - cellular automata in 1+1 dimensions, which have some appeal due to their simplicity and intriguing properties which could warrant further research and applications. The first…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-17 Tomaz Prosen

Cellular automata are dynamical systems defined on lattices and commuting with the Bernoulli shift. In this work, we focus on the spectral properties of D-dimensional cellular automata. We give a characterization of their spectrum from both…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Nassima Ait Sadi , Rezki Chemlal